dramafest

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noun

A situation characterised by drama or histrionics.

OriginEnglish fest ← German Fest ← Middle High German fëst →
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Meanings

noundramafest (plural dramafests)

plural dramafests

  1. informalA situation characterised by drama or histrionics.

    Having a girl felt natural to me, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't worry just the slightest that our relationship might be unavoidably, inescapably fraught—less the stuff of happy shopping trips and more the stuff of door-slamming dramafests.

    2009, Andrea J. Buchanan, It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters, page 1

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekδράω (dráō)
  2. Ancient Greekδρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)
  3. Late Latindrāma
  4. Englishdrama
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁s
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁stos
  8. Proto-Italic*θēstos
  9. Proto-Italic*fēstos
  10. Latinfēstus
  11. Latinfestum
  12. Middle High Germanfëst
  13. GermanFest
  14. Englishfest
  15. Englishdramafest

From drama + -fest.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

farmstead
Cite this entry
APA

dramafest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dramafest

MLA

“dramafest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dramafest. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dramafest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dramafest.

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