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Traditional English :: tragedian
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traget.html - n.
1 a writer of tragedies.
2 an actor in tragedy. [ME f. OF tragediane (as TRAGEDY)] |
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Traditional English :: tragedienne
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traget.html - n.
an actress in tragedy. [F fem. (as TRAGEDIAN)] |
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Traditional English :: tragedy
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traget.html - n. (pl. -ies) 1 a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. 2 a sad event; a calamity (the team's defeat is a tragedy). 3 a a play in verse or prose dealing with tragic events and with an unhappy ending, esp. concerning the downfall of the protagonist. b tragic plays as a genre (cf. COMEDY). [ME f. OF tragedie f. L tragoedia f. Gk tragoidia app. goat-song f. tragos goat + oide song] |
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Traditional English :: tragacanth
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traget.html - n. a white or reddish gum from a plant, Astragalus gummifer, used in pharmacy, calico-printing, etc., as a vehicle for drugs, dye, etc. [F tragacante f. L tragacantha f. Gk tragakantha, name of a shrub, f. tragos goat + akantha thorn] |
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Traditional English :: tragedian
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traget.html - n.
1 a writer of tragedies.
2 an actor in tragedy. [ME f. OF tragediane (as TRAGEDY)] |
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Traditional English :: tragedienne
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traget.html - n.
an actress in tragedy. [F fem. (as TRAGEDIAN)] |
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