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melodeons

melodeons is the plural of melodeon.

Meaning of melodeon

Noun (1)

melodeon (plural melodeons)

  1. (historical) A type of reed organ with a single keyboard.
    • The thin, nearsighted young woman who had been humped over the keyboard of the melodeon, straightened up. The worshipers relaxed a little and began to look about.1909, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Keziah Coffin
  2. An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys.
    • But Chae said it didn't matter, he'd bring his melodeon and Long Rob his fiddle; and faith! if that didn't content the folk they were looking for a church parade of the Gordons, not a wedding.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 147

Noun (2)

melodeon (plural melodeons)

  1. (US, historical) A music hall.

Questions about melodeons

What is melodeons the plural of?
Melodeons is the plural of melodeon.

Words near melodeons in the dictionary

  1. melodeath
  2. melodeclamation
  3. melodeon
  4. melodeonist
  5. melodeonists
  6. melodeons
  7. melodeum
  8. melodial
  9. melodially
  10. melodic
  11. melodic death metal

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