"sitcom" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪtˌkɒm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sitcom.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sitcoms [plural]
Etymology: Blend of situation comedy. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|situation comedy}} Blend of situation comedy Head templates: {{en-noun}} sitcom (plural sitcoms)
  1. Situation comedy. Categories (topical): Comedy, Television Synonyms: sit-com, sit com Hypernyms: comedy Translations (situation comedy — see also situation comedy): ⁧كُومِيدِيَا اَلْمَوْقِف⁩ (kōmīdiyā l-mawqif) [feminine] (Arabic), 情景喜劇 (Chinese Mandarin), 情景喜剧 (qíngjǐng xǐjù) (Chinese Mandarin), 處境喜劇 (Chinese Mandarin), 处境喜剧 (chǔjìng xǐjù) (Chinese Mandarin), tilannekomedia (Finnish), comédie de situation [feminine] (French), sitcom [masculine] (French), სიტკომი (siṭḳomi) (Georgian), სიტუაციური კომედია (siṭuaciuri ḳomedia) (Georgian), Sitcom [feminine] (German), szitkom (Hungarian), シチュエーションコメディ (shichuēshonkomedī) (Japanese), シットコム (shittokomu) (Japanese), sitkom (Malay), sitcom [neuter] (Romanian), ситуацио́нная коме́дия (situaciónnaja komédija) [feminine] (Russian), ситко́м (sitkóm) [masculine] (Russian), комеди́йное шо́у (komedíjnoje šóu) [neuter] (Russian), situationskomedi (Swedish), sitcom (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-sitcom-en-noun-obaCV0Er Disambiguation of Comedy: 99 1 Disambiguation of Television: 96 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪtˌkɒm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sitcom.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sitcoms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sitcom (plural sitcoms)
  1. Acronym of single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage. Tags: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Alternative form of: single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage Synonyms: SITCOM
    Sense id: en-sitcom-en-noun-ayGZV97h
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.