Inflected forms: pl. par·o·dies 1a. A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See synonyms at caricature. b. The genre of literature comprising such works. 2. Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.3.Music The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: par·o·died, par·o·dy·ing, par·o·dies To make a parody of. See synonyms at imitate.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin pardia, from Greek paridi : para-, subsidiary to; see para–1 + aoid, id, song; see wed-2 in Appendix I.
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