Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

melodrame

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: melo-drame
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of melodrama.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames."
"The Englishwoman diffuses over a whole day what the French reserves for a few hours. Effect there is the summing up. In great, as in little things, the French are a nation of actors—life is to them a great melodrame."

Etymology

From French mélodrame.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: mélodrame

Usage

Inflected Forms

melodrames (plural)

Questions

What does melodrame mean?: Obsolete form of melodrama.
Where does melodrame come from?: It is traced to French.

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