dramatization

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 0.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of dramatizing. The act of adapting a literary work for the theatre.
2. noun The act of adapting a literary work for the theatre.
3. noun The act of presenting something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.
4. noun A version that has been dramatized.

   This is a dramatization of life 1000 years ago.

Similar words

dramatisation simulation simulating theatricalization docudramatization fictionalization portrayal staging enactment action

Often followed by

of and in is by or was that as

Word family

drama dramas dramatic dramatically dramatisation dramatisations dramatise dramatised dramatises dramatising