parody

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Etymology

From Latin parodia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (“parody”), from παρά (“besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidē, “song”).

Noun

parody (plural parodies)

1. A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
   • Macaulay

     The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.

2. (archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

Translations

expression making fun of something else

• Catalan: paròdia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戏仿 (cmn), 谐仿 (cmn)

• Czech: parodie (cs) f
• Danish: parodi (da)
• Finnish: parodia (fi)
• French: parodie (fr) f
• German: Parodie (de) f

• Greek: παρωδία (el) (parodía) f
• Hebrew: פארודיה (parodia)
• Hungarian: paródia (hu)
• Norwegian: parodi (no)
• Polish: parodia (pl) f
• Portuguese: paródia (pt)
• Russian: пародия (ru) (paródija) f
• Spanish: parodia (es) f

Verb

parody (third-person singular simple present parodies, present participle parodying, simple past and past participle parodied)

1. To make a parody of something.

   The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.

Translations

to make a parody of something

• Catalan: parodiar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戏仿 (cmn), 谐仿 (cmn)

• Czech: parodovat (cs)
• Danish: parodiere (da)
• Finnish: parodioida (fi)
• French: parodier (fr)
• German: parodieren (de)

• Greek: παρωδώ (el) (parodó)
• Hebrew: פרודיה (he)
• Hungarian: parodizál (hu), kifiguráz (hu)
• Polish: parodiować (pl)
• Portuguese: parodiar (pt)
• Russian: пародировать (ru) (parodírovat') f impf., спародировать (ru) (sparodírovat') f pf.
• Spanish: parodiar (es)

See also

• satire / satirize
• pastiche

External links

• parody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• parody in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• parody at OneLook Dictionary Search