French Meaning of melodrama
Mélodrame
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Definitions and Meaning of melodrama in English
melodrama (n)
an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
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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Mélodrame
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
Comédie,Comédie dramatique,Documentaire dramatique,Drame,Comédie dramatique,intermède,Monodrame,comédie musicale,Comédie musicale,saynète
froideur,apathie,calme,Sang-froid,sécheresse,impassibilité,impassibilité,indifférence,insensibilité,insensibilité
melodizing => mélodisant, melodized => mélodisé, melodize => mélodier, melodist => Mélodiste, melodise => Mélodie,
