parody

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹədi/, /ˈpæɹədi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹədi/
• Hyphenation: par‧o‧dy

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: 戲仿 (zh), 戏仿 (zh) (xìfǎng), 諧仿, 谐仿 (xiéfǎng)

• Czech: parodie f
• Danish: parodi (da)
• Esperanto: parodio
• Finnish: parodia (fi)
• French: parodie (fr) f
• German: Parodie (de) f
• Greek: παρωδία (el) f (parodía)
• Hebrew: פארודיה‎ (he) (parodia)
• Hungarian: paródia (hu)

• Japanese: パロディ (parodi)
• Korean: 패러디 (ko) (paereodi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parodi (no) m

  Nynorsk: parodi m

• Polish: parodia (pl) f
• Portuguese: paródia (pt)
• Russian: паро́дия (ru) f (paródija)
• Spanish: parodia (es) f
• Tagalog: gayambalbal
• Yiddish: פּאַראָדיע‎ f (parodye)

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: 戲仿 (zh), 戏仿 (zh) (xìfǎng), 諧仿, 谐仿 (xiéfǎng)

• Czech: parodovat
• Danish: parodiere
• Esperanto: parodii
• Finnish: parodioida (fi)
• French: parodier (fr)
• German: parodieren

• Greek: παρωδώ (el) (parodó)
• Hebrew: פרודיה‎ (he)
• Hungarian: parodizál (hu), kifiguráz (hu)
• Polish: parodiować (pl)
• Portuguese: parodiar
• Russian: пароди́ровать (ru) impf (parodírovatʹ), спароди́ровать (ru) pf (sparodírovatʹ)
• Spanish: parodiar (es)
• Swedish: parodiera (sv)

See also

• satire, satirize
• pastiche
• send up, sendup, send-up
• spoof

Further reading

• 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