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melodrama

Melodrama is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter M and ends with the letter A for which we found 1 definitions.

Definition
(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word melodrama is a 9 letter word that has 4 syllable 's . The syllable division for melodrama is: mel-o-dra-ma


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