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melodramas

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noun

Say it like: Mel-odr-ama-s

The correct spelling is melodramas. A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. For example: "the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio"."

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the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

Definition

noun

  1. 1.A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
  2. 2.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
  3. 3.Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

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