docudrama

名词 n.
/ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/    /ˈdɑkjəˌdɹɑmə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of drama (a film, play, television show, etc.) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events. US,countable,uncountable
    — What he saw was a school system in defeat, in panic. When a man must fight he reaches for such weapons as he has and understands. Early last summer, Phil[lip C.] Lewis stripped the cover off his typewriter, squared a sheet of paper on the platen, and invented DocuDrama. It's a dramatization of the fix the schools are in.

词形变化

docudramas plural docu-drama alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *dokeō
Latin doceō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Latin documentumbor.
French document
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
French -aire
French documentairebor.
English documentary
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)bor.
Late Latin drāmabor.
English drama
blend
English docudrama
Blend of documentary + drama.
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