parody
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpæɹədi/, /ˈpɛɹədi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæɹədi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Hyphenation: par‧o‧dy
Noun edit
parody (countable and uncountable, plural parodies)
- A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
- Coordinate term: send-up
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.
- (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
Usage notes edit
Not to be confused with parity.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
expression making fun of something else
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Verb edit
parody (third-person singular simple present parodies, present participle parodying, simple past and past participle parodied)
- (transitive) To make a parody of something.
- The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.
Usage notes edit
Often confused with satire, which agitates for social change using humor.
Translations edit
to make a parody of something
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “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.