vaudeville

[US]/'vɔːdəvɪl/
[UK]/'vɔdəvɪl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a form of entertainment featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as comedy, dancing, magic, and acrobatics
Word Forms

Phrases & Collocations

vaudeville show

vaudeville theater

vaudeville performance

vaudeville comedy

vaudeville act

Example Sentences

she was top of the bill at America's leading vaudeville house.

A case might be made for the blackface minstrel show, vaudeville, or for the entertainments of some medicine shows, camivals, and riverboats as American folk drama.

Its quiz shows, cooking lessons and vaudeville were perfectly watchable, it said, but the films were awful.

Real-world Examples

In fact, early animators often performed on vaudeville stages.

Source: Vox opinion

It's part vaudeville and part philosophy, and honestly… it's pretty awesome.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

In their tight overcoats and derby hats they looked like a vaudeville team.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

In the 1930s vaudeville and blackface minstrelsy declined.

Source: Vox opinion

The Opry House is a film about Mickey putting on a big vaudeville show.

Source: Vox opinion

His father was a vaudeville entertainer as well as a composer and voice coach.

Source: Time

One can see a play, a musical performance or even a vaudeville show there.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

After coming ashore, he worked as a vaudeville actor and then a newspaper reporter.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

Short films were made here featuring vaudeville performances, magic tricks, even the world's first cat video.

Source: If there is a if.

It was a modern American television sketch comedy with the lingering flavor of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley.

Source: What it takes: Celebrity Interviews

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