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drama

Portuguese, noun/ˈdɾɐ̃.mɐ/

drama is spelled D-R-A-M-A (5 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,719th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drama is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “drama (composition)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peça teatral”.

What does drama mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedrama (composition)

  2. 2

    masculinedrama (theatrical play)

  3. 3

    masculinedrama (dramatic situation), big deal, fuss, scene

    Para de fazer drama.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. peça teatral 2. gênero literário tragicômico 3. gênero de cinema 4. acontecimento sinistro ou catastrófico

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of drama

  • dramas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce drama?

  • Brazil /ˈdɾɐ̃.mɐ/
  • Portugal /ˈdɾɐ.mɐ/
  • Portugal /ˈdɾa.mɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to drama

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is drama in Portuguese?

drama appears 33 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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