different between melodrama vs melody

English

Etymology

From French mélodrame, the second element refashioned by analogy with drama; ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (mélos, “limb”, “member”, “song”, “tune”, “melody”) + ????? (drâma, “deed”, “theatrical act”). Compare melodrame. Cognate to German Melodram and Spanish melodrama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l??d???m?/

Noun

melodrama (countable and uncountable, plural melodramas or melodramata)

1. (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
2. (countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks

   the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
3. (uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /m?.lo?d?a.m?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /m?.lu?d?a.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.lo?d?a.ma/

Noun

melodrama m (plural melodrames)

1. melodrama (a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations)
2. melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion)

Derived terms

• melodramàtic

Related terms

• drama

Further reading

• “melodrama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “melodrama” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “melodrama” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “melodrama” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mélos)

Noun

melodrama n (definite singular melodramaet, indefinite plural melodrama or melodramaer, definite singular melodramaene)

1. a melodrama

References

• “melodrama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mélos)

Noun

melodrama n (definite singular melodramaet, indefinite plural melodrama, definite plural melodramaa)

1. a melodrama

References

• “melodrama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

melodrama m (plural melodramas)

1. melodrama (romantic drama)
2. (figuratively) melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêlodra?ma/
• Hyphenation: me?lo?dra?ma

Noun

m?lodr?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ???????????)

1. melodrama

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mélos) and Ancient Greek ????? (drâma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /melo?d?ama/, [me.lo?ð??a.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

melodrama m (plural melodramas)

1. melodrama

Derived terms

• melodramático

Related terms

• drama

Further reading

• “melodrama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (mel?idí?, “singing, chanting”), from ????? (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ????? (aoid?, “song”), contracted form ??? (?id?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mel.?.di/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l.?.di/

Noun

melody (plural melodies)

1. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

Synonyms

• (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase): tune

Derived terms

• melodic
• melodious
• melodium

Related terms

• melodrama

Coordinate terms

• harmony
• rhythm
• tone color

Translations

See also

• scale
• tune
• harmony
• music

Anagrams

• moyled