daytime drama
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A television or radio serial broadcast during the daytime, especially one featuring melodramatic stories or characters.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Daytime dramas were as successful as their prime-time counterparts, despite concerns that an economically unattractive listening audience (housewives) would deter sponsors from purchasing advertising spot time in this scheduling block."
- "David Canary, Awards […] 87. Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama (1985) 88. Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama (1986)"
- "In the anything but static popular culture of the 1970s, daytime drama found itself at odds with both the place of women in contemporary, real-world situations and the contextualized, melodramatic world of females in soap operas."
Usage
Inflected Forms
daytime dramas (plural)