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farce
What does farce mean?
farce (noun): a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use farce in a sentence?
- The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce farce?
/fɑɹs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does farce come from?
Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to farce
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “farce” mean?
the absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something
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a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
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a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
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respect (social standing) coming from achievement or development
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