Meaning

6 senses
  1. (uncountable)A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

    Farce, Posse

    фарсfars

  2. (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.

  3. (uncountable)A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

    The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

    Farce

    фарсfars

  4. (uncountable)A ridiculous or empty show.

    Farce

    фарсfars, балага́нbalagán

  5. (countable)An elaborate lie.

  6. (countable, uncountable)Forcemeat, stuffing.

More definitions
  • 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 sentences
  1. This is a farce.

    Це фарс. — deniko

    ruЭто фарс. — Balamax

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  2. It's all a farce.

    Це все фарс. — deniko

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  3. Sami's marriage has been a farce.

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  4. Elon Musk has proven capitalism to be a farce.

    Ілон Маск довів, що капіталізм - це фарс. — deniko

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  5. It's a complete farce.

    ruЭто полный фарс. — marafon

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
style of humor:
ridiculous or empty show:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
style of humor:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sens

Borrowed 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: farces
Singularfarce
Pluralfarces

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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

13 related words

See also

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