vaudeville

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vaudeville.

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈvɔd.vɪl/, /ˈvɔ.də.vɪl/, /ˈvoʊd.vɪl/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɔː.də.vɪl/
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

vaudeville (countable and uncountable, plural vaudevilles)

  1. (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.
  2. (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
    • 2008 January 28, Ben Brantley, “Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe”, in New York Times‎:
      “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.

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Tagalog: bodabil

Translations

French

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly a corruption of voix de ville (“voice of the city”), or vallée de Vire (“valley of the (river) Vire”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vod.vil/
  • Audio (CAN)(file)

Noun

vaudeville m (plural vaudevilles)

  1. 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 .

Coordinate terms

Descendants
  • → Armenian: վոդևիլ (vodewil)
  • → Belarusian: вадэвіль (vadevilʹ)
  • → Bulgarian: водевил (vodevil)
  • → Catalan: vodevil
  • → Danish: vaudeville
  • → English: vaudeville
  • → 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
  • → Russian: водеви́ль (vodevílʹ)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: во̀двӣљ (vòdvīlj)
  • → Spanish: vodevil
  • → Swedish: vådevill
  • → Ottoman Turkish: وودویل‎ (vodvil)
  • → Ukrainian: водеві́ль (vodevílʹ)

Further reading

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

vaudeville c

  1. vaudeville

Declension
Declension of vaudeville 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vaudeville vaudevillen vaudeviller vaudevillerna
Genitive vaudevilles vaudevillens vaudevillers vaudevillernas

References
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