单词 | melodrama |
释义 | melodrama n.   1. a sensational dramatic piece with crude appeals to the emotions and usu. a happy ending.   2. the genre of drama of this type.   3. language, behaviour, or an occurrence suggestive of this.   4. hist. a play with songs interspersed and with orchestral music accompanying the action. Derivatives melodramatic adj. melodramatically adv. melodramatist n. melodramatize v.tr. (also -ise). Etymology: earlier melodrame f. F m{eacute}lodrame f. Gk melos music + F drame DRAMA |
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