vaudeville
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French vaudeville.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaudeville (countable and uncountable, plural vaudevilles)
- (historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
- 1990 November 2, Peter B. Flint, “Jack Sterling, 75, Host on Radio For 18 Years in New York, Dies”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies.
- (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
- 2008 January 28, Ben Brantley, “Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe”, in The New York Times[2]:
- “Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.
Synonyms
[edit]- music hall (British)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- vaudeville blues
- vaudevillian (noun/adjective)
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: bodabil
Translations
[edit]a style of multi-act theatrical entertainment
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French vaudeville.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaudeville
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of vaudeville (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vaudeville | vaudevillet | |
| genitive | vaudevillen | vaudevillejen | |
| partitive | vaudevillea | vaudevilleja | |
| illative | vaudevilleen | vaudevilleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vaudeville | vaudevillet | |
| accusative | nom. | vaudeville | vaudevillet |
| gen. | vaudevillen | ||
| genitive | vaudevillen | vaudevillejen vaudevillein rare | |
| partitive | vaudevillea | vaudevilleja | |
| inessive | vaudevillessa | vaudevilleissa | |
| elative | vaudevillesta | vaudevilleista | |
| illative | vaudevilleen | vaudevilleihin | |
| adessive | vaudevillella | vaudevilleilla | |
| ablative | vaudevillelta | vaudevilleilta | |
| allative | vaudevillelle | vaudevilleille | |
| essive | vaudevillena | vaudevilleina | |
| translative | vaudevilleksi | vaudevilleiksi | |
| abessive | vaudevilletta | vaudevilleitta | |
| instructive | — | vaudevillein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unclear. Possibly a corruption of voix de ville (“voice of the city”), or vallée de Vire (“valley of the (river) Vire”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaudeville m (plural vaudevilles)
- vaudeville
- 1858, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, L'Héritage mystérieux:
- À ses moments perdus, Fernand écrivait, avec ses camarades de bureau, un tiers ou un sixième de vaudeville .
- "In his idle moments Fernand would write a scene or two of vaudeville with his colleagues from the office."
Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: վոդևիլ (vodewil)
- → Belarusian: вадэвіль (vadevilʹ)
- → Bulgarian: водевил (vodevil)
- → Catalan: vodevil
- → Danish: vaudeville
- → English: vaudeville
- → Tagalog: bodabil
- → Georgian: ვოდევილი (vodevili)
- → German: Vaudeville
- → Greek: βοντβίλ (vontvíl)
- → Hebrew: ווֹדְווִיל (vodevil)
- → Hindi: वडेविल (vaḍevil)
- → Japanese: ヴォードヴィル (vōdoviru)
- → Korean: 보더빌 (bodeobil)
- → Latvian: vodeviļa
- → Lithuanian: vodevilis
- → Macedonian: водвиль
- → Polish: wodewil
- → Portuguese: vaudeville
- → Romanian: vodevil
- → Russian: водеви́ль (vodevílʹ)
- → Serbo-Croatian: во̀двӣљ (vòdvīlj)
- → Spanish: vodevil
- → Swedish: vådevill
- → Ottoman Turkish: وودویل (vodvil)
- Turkish: vodvil
- → Ukrainian: водеві́ль (vodevílʹ)
Further reading
[edit]- “vaudeville”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaudeville c
Declension
[edit]Declension of vaudeville
References
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