[
UK
/dɹˈɑːmɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdɹɑmə/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹɑmə/ ]
NOUN
- an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
- the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
- the literary genre of works intended for the theater
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a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway
How To Use drama In A Sentence
- For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300. Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
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- The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
- A newly built road bisects the site, dramatically improving access to the M8 and M74.
- After a brief excursion into drama, he concentrated on his main interest, which was poetry.
- Some authors aim at a narrative of drama, skipping the plateaux of family life or inner thoughts and move through a series of peaks of achievement.
- Many of the bays and inlets are simply beautiful and consist of rock or sand, sometimes dropping away dramatically into 50 feet of water, at other times sloping gently in to shallows of just a few feet.
- Sure, a number of trees remain, but the emphasis is back on the bunkering and the dramatic contours of its fairways and greens.
- At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun