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noun

adaptation

a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

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Six example sentences with adaptation, each labelled with its topic.

  • The adaptation moves the story from Cornwall to Nova Scotia, but keeps every letter the sisters write to each other.

    Movies

  • Her stage adaptation of the 1890s novel cuts four subplots and gives the housekeeper most of the narrator's lines.

    Literature

  • The opera is an adaptation of a short folk tale, stretched into three acts with a chorus of villagers.

    Music

  • The game is an adaptation of a 1960s spy novel, and its dialogue keeps whole paragraphs from the book.

    Gaming

  • Her graphic novel adaptation of the epic runs to four hundred pages and gives the sea monsters an entire chapter of their own.

    Art

  • A twelfth-century adaptation of the Roman epic turned its heroes into knights and added a tournament the original never had.

    History

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