Telenovela

Word TELENOVELA
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Definitions and meanings of "Telenovela"

What do we mean by telenovela?

A melodramatic television series performed in Spanish or Portuguese, typically shown during prime time over several weeks or months. noun

A television soap opera presented as a miniseries noun

A television soap opera presented as a miniseries.

A soap opera, of Spanish or Latin American origin. Famed for having strange plots, even for soap operas, and some of the worst offenses of overacting ever. Urban Dictionary

1: A Spanish Soap Opera 2: A word to use when some is being so overdramatic Urban Dictionary

Mexican show about love and too much fucking drama in it. Sometimes used by Mexicans to tell that something is too dramatic Urban Dictionary

Where all ties are dramatically, definitively and even threateningly cut, leaving the receiving party not only with no hope of reversal or reconciliation, but causing them to question their most basic beliefs about the closeness of the former relationship and their own sense of reality within it. Often neatly reconciled by audacious deus ex machina. Urban Dictionary

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The word "telenovela" in example sentences

The term telenovela derived from the Spanish and Portuguese terms for “novel” and “television” is the Hispanic equivalent of an American soap opera. ❋ Antoine Van Agtmael (2007)

Paisner said the three nominations for Capadocia reflect a growing trend toward higher quality television production in more countries outside the US Capadocia had the budget to spend a week shooting a single episode, compared to the typical Latin American telenovela which would do one episode in a day, Paisner said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Capadocia" had the budget to spend a week shooting a single episode, compared to the typical Latin American telenovela which would do one episode in a day, Paisner said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My Peruvian colleagues and expedition co-leader, Rodolfo Salas, named it after a Colombian telenovela, which is like "Pedro El Escamoso," "Sleazy Pedro." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"'Desperate Housewives' has many elements of a telenovela, which is the backbone of Latin American television," says Aranguibel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Strangely enough, one of the factors that brought about the popularity of the telenovela was the predominance of the PRI, Mexico's ruling political party - for so many years Mexico's only party. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Earl Shorris is ingenious at finding ways to tell this story: prostitutes in the Plaza Loreto launch the discussion of economics; we are taken inside two crucial elections as Mexico struggles toward democracy; we watch the creation of a popular "telenovela" and meet the country's greatest living intellectual. ❋ Unknown (2009)

LOS ANGELES -- A Spanish-language TV drama opened here on Tuesday -- not a "telenovela" soap opera, but rather a corporate fight that could reshape the Hispanic media landscape in the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He looked like he could be an actor in a T.V. "telenovela" or in a movie. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Fernando, mi amigo! Y Maria, mi [mujer]! En el cuchi-cuchi! PORQUE, MARIA?!" "Porque Fernando es muy grande! [Y tu] eres [chiquito]!" ❋ Kikanjuuneko (2005)

“Hey did you see [Maria]’s trantrum [earlier]?” “Yeah she was being so [telenovela]” ❋ YeahImNotOnFire (2017)

Guy 1: Bro this is more [dramatic] than a [telenovela] [Guy 2]: I know. ❋ Mexican Idiot (2022)

M: "Hey, [is it cool] if [we talk] when you get back from Mexico?" L: "[I guess so]...after all, I haven’t telenovela banished you yet" ❋ Channel_panel (2019)

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