parody
English
Etymology
From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: par‧o‧dy
See also
Noun
parody (countable and uncountable, plural parodies)
- 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.
- Macaulay
- (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
Translations
expression making fun of something else
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Verb
parody (third-person singular simple present parod, present participle ies, simple past and past participle parodied)
- To make a parody of something.
- The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.
Translations
to make a parody of something
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See also
Further reading
- “parody”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “parody”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “parody”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.