Definitions for Melody
ˈmɛl ə dimelody

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrasenoun

   a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

   "she was humming an air from Beethoven"

2. melody, tonal patternnoun

   the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. melodynoun

   tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

   This song has a nice melody.

2. Melodynoun

   A female given name from English.

   Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.

3. Etymology: From the noun melody; in regular use since the 20th century.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MELODYnoun

   Musick; harmony of sound.

   Etymology: μελωδία.

   The prophet David having singular knowledge not in poetry alone but in musick also, judged them both to be things most necessary for the house of God, left behind him for that purpose a number of divinely indited poems, and was farther the author of adding unto poetry melody in publick prayer, melody both vocal and instrumental, for the raising up of mens hearts, and the sweetening of their affections towards God. Richard Hooker, b. v.

   Singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord. Eph. v. 19.

   Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
   And husht with buzzing night flies to thy slumber;
   Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great,
   And lull’d with sounds of sweetest melody. William Shakespeare.

   Lend me your songs, ye nightingales: Oh pour
   The mazy-running soul of melody
   Into my varied verse. James Thomson, Spring, l. 570.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Melody

   A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include other musical elements such as tonal color. It is the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody. Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs, and are usually repeated throughout a composition in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominantly conjunct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Melodynoun

   a sweet or agreeable succession of sounds

2. Melodynoun

   a rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression

3. Melodynoun

   the air or tune of a musical piece

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1. Melody

   A melody, also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody. Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs, and are usually repeated throughout a song or piece in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches, pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Melody

   mel′o-di, n. an air or tune: music: an agreeable succession of single musical sounds, as distinguished from harmony or the concord of a succession of simultaneous sounds.—n. Melō′deon, a small reed organ: an improved variety of the accordeon.—adj. Melod′ic—n.pl. Melod′ics, the branch of music concerned with melody.—adj. Melō′dious, full of melody: agreeable to the ear.—adv. Melō′diously.—n. Melō′diousness.—v.t. Mel′odise, to make melodious: to reduce to the form of a melody.—v.i. to compose or sing melodies.—n. Mel′odist. [Fr.,—Late L.—Gr. melōdia—melos, a song, ōdē, a lay.]

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1. melody

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MELODY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Melody is ranked #28023 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Melody surname appeared 855 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Melody.
   
   92.6% or 792 total occurrences were White.
   2.8% or 24 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 17 total occurrences were Black.
   1.4% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.1% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.

How to pronounce Melody?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Melody in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Melody in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Melody in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Melody in a Sentence

1. The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead:

   Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

2. Albert Camus:

   The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

3. Jill Soloway:

   When the time came to bring the' Transparent' journey to a close, it was clear that saying goodbye to Maura Pfefferman was our path forward, in this musical finale, we dramatize the death of Maura Pfefferman in an odyssey of comedy and melancholy told through the joyful prism of melody and dance.

4. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   Dance is the place that you visit to remove any anxiety while moving to your favorite melody

5. Claudia Gold:

   Even before children can speak, they know how to communicate for a certain melody to be played over and over again, it's a way of calming and organizing young brains.

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