English
Noun
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- uncountable A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes (archaic).
- countable 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 grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
- context|uncountable|figurative|colloquial Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
Translations
French: mélodrame m
German: Melodrama n
Spanish: melodrama f
Derived terms
melodramatic
melodramatics
melodramatist
melodramatize
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