Meaning
6 senses(uncountable)A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
Farce, Posse
фарсfars
(countable)A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
(uncountable)A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
Farce
фарсfars
(uncountable)A ridiculous or empty show.
Farce
фарсfars, балага́нbalagán
(countable)An elaborate lie.
(countable, uncountable)Forcemeat, stuffing.
- a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
Examples
12 sentencesThis is a farce.
Це фарс.
ruЭто фарс.
It's all a farce.
Це все фарс.
Sami's marriage has been a farce.
Elon Musk has proven capitalism to be a farce.
Ілон Маск довів, що капіталізм - це фарс.
It's a complete farce.
ruЭто полный фарс.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sensBorrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.
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Forms
plural: farcesSynonyms
3 synonyms- a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations:farce comedytravesty
- mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs:forcemeat
Word family
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