Word.ws English Dictionary

parabasis

parabasis noun: the part of an Ancient Greek comedy in which the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly.

Noun

parabasis (plural parabases)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) The part of an Ancient Greek comedy in which the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly.

Forms of parabasis

pluralparabases

Origin of parabasis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράβασις (parábasis).

Questions about parabasis

What does parabasis mean?
Parabasis means the part of an Ancient Greek comedy in which the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly.
What part of speech is parabasis?
Parabasis is a noun.
What is the plural of parabasis?
The plural of parabasis is parabases.

Words near parabasis in the dictionary

  1. parabasalians
  2. parabasalid
  3. parabasalids
  4. parabases
  5. parabasilid
  6. parabasis
  7. parabasisphenoid
  8. parabasisphenoids
  9. parabeik
  10. parabeiks
  11. parabellum

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parabasis (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “parabasis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/parabasis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.