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What does tragedy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tragedy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
  2. The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
  3. A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
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And though he tried not to make a tragedy out of being wifeless, sometimes his spirits hardly soared at all when he saw the great mountain.
We sense the tragedy of the poetic ballad and the noble lineage of its characters in the very opening measures of the musical rendering.
All railway wagons of the kind in the tragedy at Tebay have been removed from service by Network Rail pending its investigation.
And therein lies the tragedy of the public's mislaid focus on this one annual meeting.
She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
Had it done so, pain and tragedy and loss on a very large scale could have been avoided.

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