Czech Meaning of melodrama

Melodrama

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Definitions and Meaning of melodrama in English

Wordnet

melodrama (n)

an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization

Webster

melodrama (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.

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Melodrama

an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterizationFormerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of c

Komedie,Komediální drama,Dokumentární drama,Drama,Tramedie,mezihra,Monodrama,muzikál,Muzikál,jednoaktovka

netečnost,apatie,klid,Rozvaha,sucho,netečnost,netečnost,lhostejnost,necitlivost,necitlivost

melodizing => melodizační, melodized => zhudebněný, melodize => melodizovat, melodist => Melodik, melodise => Melodie,