ドラマdorama
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- noun(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; play
- noundrama; dramatic incident; spectacle; tragedy
- Synonym戯曲ぎきょくWrittenA written, literary term for a play as a text — the script itself, as in 「シェイクスピアの戯曲」. 「ドラマ」 usually means a TV drama instead.
- Synonym演劇えんげきNeutralThe art of theatre: drama performed live on stage, as in 「演劇部」. 「ドラマ」 typically refers to TV or radio dramas.
- Synonym劇げきNeutralA drama or play, especially on stage, as in 「学芸会の劇」. Mostly stage plays rather than the TV dramas 「ドラマ」 usually means.
- Synonym芝居しばいNeutralA play, but also acting or putting on an act, as in 「芝居がうまい」 and 「一芝居打つ」 — uses 「ドラマ」 doesn't have.
- AntonymドキュメンタリーNeutralA documentary: fact-based, with no fictional dramatization — the opposite of the fictional 「ドラマ」.
Use 「ドラマ」 for TV dramas and dramatic incidents. For stage theatre pick 「演劇」 or 「劇」, for the written script 「戯曲」, for acting or putting on an act 「芝居」, and for fact-based programmes 「ドキュメンタリー」.
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