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melo

melo is the abbreviation of melodrama.

Meaning of melodrama

Noun

melodrama (countable and uncountable, plural melodramas or melodramata)

  1. (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
  2. (countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
  3. (countable, opera) A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.
    • The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.
  4. (colloquial, figuratively, uncountable) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

Proper noun capitalized: Melo

Melo

  1. A city in Uruguay, capital of the department of Cerro Largo

Forms of melo

pluralmelos

Origin of melo

Perhaps after French mélo.

From Portuguese melro (“blackbird”), similar to Spanish mirlo.

Questions about melo

What does melo mean?
Melo means a city in Uruguay, capital of the department of Cerro Largo.
What is melo the abbreviation of?
Melo is the abbreviation of melodrama.
What part of speech is melo?
Melo is a proper noun.

Words near melo in the dictionary

  1. Melnykist
  2. Melnykists
  3. Melnykite
  4. Melnykites
  5. Melnyks
  6. melo
  7. melo-
  8. melo-dramatic
  9. melobiose
  10. Meloche
  11. Meloches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melo (page history and authors); Melo (page history and authors); melodrama (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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