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Plural of drama

regular plural

The plural of drama is dramas or dramata.

Forms of drama

Singulardrama /ˈdɹɑːmə/
Pluraldramas
dramata /ˈdɹɑːmətə/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Dramas and dramata in a sentence

  • By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.From the entry range
  • Reality-based television is television programming based on unscripted life situations, rather than scripted comedies or dramas.From the entry reality-based
  • It begins, as so many Chinese legal dramas do, with a perfectly ordinary act.2025 November 26, Fang Yongrui (pseudonym), “Tourism as Treason: Pastor Sun Chenghao Sentenced to Four and a Half Years for a Trip”, in…. From the entry honeymooner
  • True stories are embellished, the casts of fictional dramas stuffed with unlikely non-actors.2023 November 11, Danny Leigh, “Living on the edge”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry grist
  • Many novels, dramas, comics, and animated shows produced in China are based on popular webnovels.2021 December 14, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, Heaven Official’s Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu; volume 1), Seven Seas Entertainment, →ISBN. From the entry webnovel

Meaning of drama

  1. noun A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
  2. noun Such a work for television, radio or the cinema, usually one that is not a comedy.
  3. noun Theatrical plays in general.

Full definition of drama

Questions about the plural of drama

What is the plural of drama?
The plural of drama is dramas or dramata.
Which is correct, dramas or dramata?
Both are used. dramas is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is drama countable?
Drama is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drama (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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