melody
/ˈmɛl.ə.di/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
name
A female given name from English.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses."
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).