New Comedy

noun

1. Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of New Comedy¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Listening to Sarah Palin talk about history is like watching an episode of the new Comedy Central show Drunk History.

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Wilson was an unusual and refreshing new comedy presence in Hollywood.

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The new comedy, premiering Wednesday night on ABC, stars Rebel Wilson.

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That, in a nutshell, is the response of three right-wing media outlets to the new comedy documentary The Muslims Are Coming!

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Splitsider calls it “far and away the most promising new comedy of the season.”

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Go to the play in the evening with Hunt and Marianne, and see a new comedy damned.

From Project Gutenberg

In the evening I went to the theater to see a new comedy by a Spaniard.

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The most distinguished poet of the New Comedy; fragments of his comedies have come down to us.

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They are adaptations or combinations from the works of Menander, Diphilus, Philemon, and other writers of the new comedy.

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I must finish the new comedy and I can't finish it if I stay in town and see Cecily.

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