situation comedy

English

Noun

situation comedy (plural situation comedies) (abbreviated as sitcom)

(comedy, television) An episodic comedy radio or television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation with the same set of characters.
Synonym: sitcom

Hypernym: comedy
- 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
  […] in a time of peril and opportunity, the old complacent, unbalanced fare of action-adventure and situation comedies is simply not good enough.

Translations

episodic comedy radio or television program — see also sitcom

Chinese:
Mandarin: 情景喜劇 / 情景喜剧 (qíngjǐng xǐjù), 處境喜劇 / 处境喜剧 (chǔjìng xǐjù)
Danish: situationskomedie c
Dutch: situatie komedie ?
Finnish: tilannekomedia (fi)
French: comédie de situation (fr) f, comique de situation (fr) m
Galician: comedia de situación f
Georgian: სიტუაციური კომედია (siṭuaciuri ḳomedia)
German: Situationskomik (de) f
Greek: κωμωδία κατάστασης f (komodía katástasis)
Hungarian: szituációs komédia
Indonesian: komedi situasi
Italian: commedia di situazione f
Japanese: シチュエーションコメディ (shichuēshon komedī), ホームコメディ (hōmu komedi)
Korean: 시추에이션 코미디 (sichueisyeon komidi)
Latin: comoedia situationis f
Malay: komedi keadaan, komedi situasi, komedi suasana
Norwegian:
Bokmål: situasjonskomedie m

Nynorsk: situasjonskomedie m
Polish: komedia sytuacyjna f, sitcom (pl) m
Portuguese: sitcom (pt) m, comédia de situação f
Romanian: comedie de situație f
Russian: коме́дия положе́ний f (komédija položénij), ситко́м (ru) m (sitkóm)
Spanish: comedia de situación f
Swedish: situationskomedi c
Turkish: durum komedisi

Further reading

situation comedy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia