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1. (n.) melodrama
a dramatic form that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action over characterization.
2. melodrama
melodramatic behavior or events.
3. melodrama
(in the 17th–early 19th centuries) a romantic drama with music interspersed.
Etymology: (1800–10; < F mélodrame=mélo- (< Gk mélos song) +dramedrama)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) melodrama
an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) melodrama
formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, 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; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio"
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. melodrama
a play consisting of sensational incidents, and arranged to produce striking effects.
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Sense: a (type of) play in which emotions and the goodness or wickedness of the characters are exaggerated greatly.
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 Afrikaans: melodrama |
 Arabic: مَشْجاه: مَسْرَحِيَّه تُب |
 Bulgarian: игра на преувеличаване |
 Brazilian: melodrama |
 Czech: melodrama |
 German: das Melodrama |
 Danish: melodrama |
 Greek: μελόδραμα |
 Spanish: melodrama |
 Estonian: melodraama |
 Farsi: ملودرام |
 Finnish: melodraama |
 French: mélodrame |
 Hebrew: מֶלוֹדרָמָה |
 Hindi: उत्तेजनायुक्त नाटक |
 Croatian: melodrama |
 Hungarian: melodráma |
 Indonesian: melodrama |
 Icelandic: melódrama |
 Italian: melodramma |
 Japanese: メロドラマ |
 Korean: 멜로드라마 |
 Lithuanian: melodrama |
 Latvian: melodrāma |
 Malay: melodrama |
 Dutch: melodrama |
 Norwegian: melodrama, folkekomedie |
 Polish: melodramat |
 Persian: نمايش كه توام با موسيقى و |
 Pashto: له موسيقى سره ډرامه |
 Portuguese: melodrama |
 Romanian: melodramă |
 Russian: мелодрама |
 Slovak: melodráma |
 Slovenian: melodrama |
 Serbian: melodrama |
 Swedish: melodram[a] |
 Thai: เรื่องประโลมโลก |
 Turkish: melodram, acıklı oyun |
 Taiwanese: 情節劇，通俗劇 |
 Ukrainian: мелодрама |
 Urdu: ادنی درجے کا سنسنی خیز ڈر |
 Vietnamese: kịch mêlô |
 Chinese: 情节剧 |
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