melody
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
/ˈmɛl.ə.di/
Definition of melody
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
“Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.”
“There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.”
“Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.”
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noun
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A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
“Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.”
“There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.”
“Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.”
name
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A female given name from English.
“Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.”
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
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