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  noun 1. Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.

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• Newcomer

  [noo-kuhm-er, nyoo-] /ˈnuˌkʌm ər, ˈnyu-/ noun 1. a person or thing that has recently arrived; arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising. /ˈnjuːˌkʌmə/ noun 1. a person who has recently arrived or started to participate in something n. “recent arrival,” mid-15c., with agent noun […]

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