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situation comedy
noun
- a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
situation comedy
noun
- (on television or radio) a comedy series involving the same characters in various day-to-day situations which are developed as separate stories for each episode Also calledsitcom
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Word History and Origins
Origin of situation comedy1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
The theme song to the 1980s situation comedy "Cheers" celebrated an urban bar as a place where "everybody knows your name."
From The Daily Beast
Nevertheless, I contend that a special place in this story belongs to, of all things, a situation comedy: Father Ted.
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