Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
- (countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
- (countable, opera) A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.
- (uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
Esimerkit
- Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
Taivutusmuodot
(countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
Mélodrame, painted by Honoré Daumier between 1855 and 1860, depicting a typical Parisian scene on Boulevard du Temple
(countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914), a classic melodramatic film series