Definitions for tragedies

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tragedies trag·e·dy

Spelling: [traj-i-dee]

IPA: /ˈtrædʒ ɪ di/

Tragedies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 640 anagrams from letters in tragedies (adeegirst).

Definitions for tragedies

noun

1. a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster:
2. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society.
3. the branch of the drama that is concerned with this form of composition.
4. the art and theory of writing and producing tragedies.
5. any literary composition, as a novel, dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic or disastrous conclusion.
6. the tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.

Origin of tragedies

1325-75; Middle English tragedie Medieval Latin tragēdia, Latin tragoedia Greek tragōidía, equivalent to trág(os) goat + ōidḗ song (see ode) + -ia -y

Examples for tragedies

She alone was left, heir to all the memories and tragedies of the house.

So there are a few things we can do to try to prevent these tragedies.

Diana, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Gandhi: all of those were tragedies.

Gnatho acts his part in the comedies, but Sycophanta in the tragedies.

To this was added a faint recollection of various French tragedies.

The comparison of two tragedies might also raise a question about international policy toward the Syrian refugees today.

The release of the Newtown photos may finally move enough people to support laws that will prevent future tragedies.

And if this was done as it should be in our country, maybe there would not be tragedies like the tragedy in Moscow today.

The victims of these tragedies deserve all our pity, and sometimes our respect.

Inns have, from time immemorial, been the scenes of romances and tragedies and crimes.