tragedy
noun /ˈtrædʒədi/
/ˈtrædʒədi/
[countable, uncountable] (plural tragedies)
- a very sad event or situation, especially one that involves death
- It's a tragedy that she died so young.
- Tragedy struck the family when their son was hit by a car and killed.
- The whole affair ended in tragedy.
- Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy.
Extra Examples- She had seen the tragedy unfold.
- The closure of the factory is a tragedy for the whole community.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- appalling
- awful
- …
- end in
- be dogged by
- experience
- …
- befall somebody
- happen
- occur
- …
- tragedy for somebody
- a serious play with a sad ending, especially one in which the main character dies; plays of this type
- Shakespeare’s tragedies
- Greek tragedy
- Revenge tragedies were very popular in Elizabethan England.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- classical
- Greek
- Jacobean
- …
- write
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French tragedie, via Latin from Greek tragōidia, apparently from tragos ‘goat’ (the reason remains unexplained) + ōidē ‘song, ode’. Compare with tragic.