musical comedy

noun

A comic type of musical theater.

Meanings

nounmusical comedy (countable and uncountable, plural musical comedies)

plural musical comedies

  1. countableuncountableA comic type of musical theater.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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