Drama ˈdrɑːmə Television Critic Powerful Police Noun Bre

• a costume/historical, etc. drama
• classical/elizabethan/modern, etc. drama
• a drama critic
• drama school

drama

1. a play for the theatre, television or radio
• a costume/historical, etc. drama
2. plays considered as a form of literature
• classical/Elizabethan/modern, etc. drama
• a drama critic
• drama school
• a drama student
• I studied English and Drama at college.
3. an exciting event
• A powerful human drama was unfolding before our eyes.
4. the fact of being exciting
• You couldn't help being thrilled by the drama of the situation.
5. to make a small problem or event seem more important or serious than it really is

Extra Examples

• Art should deal with the human drama and tragedy of everyday life.
• He’s a drama major at Howard University.
• It is very difficult to write good drama.
• Millions follow this hospital drama twice a week.
• She stars in a new one-hour drama about a woman judge.
• The actor was involved in a real-life drama when he was held up at gunpoint last night.
• The afternoon was full of drama and excitement.
• The argument added a touch of drama to an otherwise dull day.
• The arrival of the police heightened the drama further.
• The media loved all the drama surrounding their divorce.
• The movie is a heart-warming family drama.
• a collection of people watching the drama unfold outside the nightclub
• a gritty police drama
• a powerful television drama about city life
• the actors in a drama
• the drama critic for the ‘Sunday Times’
• the first episode of a new police drama produced for television
• It is a lavish costume drama set in the early twentieth century.
• Television drama is a powerful cultural medium.
• The story easily fits into the standard mould of a courtroom drama.

Word Origin

• early 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’.