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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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| Definition of 'melodrama' |
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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