Tra từ drama - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

drama AW [drama dramas] BrE [ˈdrɑːmə] NAmE [ˈdrɑːmə] noun
1. countable a play for the theatre, television or radio
•a costume/historical, etc. drama
2. uncountable 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. countable an exciting event
• A powerful human drama was unfolding before our eyes.
4. uncountable the fact of being exciting
• You couldn't help being thrilled by the drama of the situation.
Idiom: ↑make a drama out of something

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

Thesaurus:
drama noun
1. C
•a courtroom drama serialized on TV
play • • comedy • • tragedy • • farce •
a television/radio drama/play/comedy
a historical drama/play
2. U
•Television drama is a powerful cultural medium.
acting • • the stage • • show business • • the performing arts • |BrE theatre • |AmE theater • |informal showbiz •
improvisational/serious drama/acting/theatre
classical/Elizabethan/modern drama/theatre
a drama/stage/acting/performing arts/theatre school

Example Bank:
•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.