parody

From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹədi/, /ˈpɛɹədi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹədi/

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• Hyphenation: par‧o‧dy

parody (countable and uncountable, plural parodies)

1. A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.

2. (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

Not to be confused with parity.

parody (third-person singular simple present parodies, present participle parodying, simple past and past participle parodied)

1. To make a parody of something.

   The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.

Often confused with satire, which agitates for social change using humor.

• satire, satirize
• pastiche
• send up, sendup, send-up
• spoof
• take off, takeoff

• parody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• parody in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• parody at OneLook Dictionary Search