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docudramas

docudramas is the plural of docudrama.

Meaning of docudrama

Noun

docudrama (countable and uncountable, plural docudramas)

  1. (US) 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.
    • 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...1957 September 28, William A[nthony] Caldwell, “The best investment society can make …”, in Bergen Evening Record, volume 63, number 98, Hackensack, N.J.: The Bergen Evening Record Corp., →OCLC...

Forms of docudramas

alternative formdocu-dramas

Questions about docudramas

What is docudramas the plural of?
Docudramas is the plural of docudrama.

Words near docudramas in the dictionary

  1. docucam
  2. docucams
  3. docucomedies
  4. docucomedy
  5. docudrama
  6. docudramas
  7. docudramatic
  8. docudramatist
  9. docudramatists
  10. docudramatization
  11. docudramatizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: docudramas (page history and authors); docudrama (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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