Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ealing comedy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: eal-ing -com-e-dy
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genre of English comedy film, typically populist and satirical about life in post-WWII British society.

Uncountable

noun

A film in this genre.

Countable

Example Sentences

"Ealing comedy is suddenly being regarded as the intellectual's treat."
"What Michael Balcon described as the 'mild anarchy' (1969: 159) permeating Ealing comedy was, over the course of the decade, usurped by the moderate anarchy of the St Trinians and Carry On films."
"The use of voice-over, characteristic of Ealing comedy, is also ironic."
"Ealing comedy was a reaction against the sort of earnest fare the Ealing Studios themselves had produced in wartime."
"This new film follows the pattern of an Ealing comedy, with escalating chaos and fantasy as the entire fabric of life collapses for the inhabitants of a Leningrad apartment block"
"OK, it's [The Ladykillers] an Ealing comedy so there's something very British and very genteel about it , which isn't particularly our thing."

Etymology

From Ealing Studios, the studio which released most such films, named after the London town of Ealing.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Ealing comedies (plural)

Questions

What does ealing comedy mean?: A genre of English comedy film, typically populist and satirical about life in post-WWII British society.
Where does ealing comedy come from?: From Ealing Studios, the studio which released most such films, named after the London town of Ealing.

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