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melomaniac

Syllables: me·lo·ma·ni·ac/ˌmɛlə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪak/

melomaniac noun: one with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.

melomaniac: one with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music
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Noun

melomaniac (plural melomaniacs)

  1. One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.
    • He then amused himself with the fiddle—tried the French horn for a season, varying the matter by a few lessons upon the clarionet and hautboy, and finally improving his powers of endurance by a little practising of the Kent bugle. He at length became a perfect melomaniac, and was always in danger...1850, Joseph C[lay] Neal, “Music Mad; or, The Melomaniac”, in Pic-nic Sketches, Dublin: Published by James M'Glashan, →OCLC, page 213
    • Of all the animals, the lions were apparently the most susceptible to musical influence, and these royal beasts showed an interest in the sweet tones of the graphophone, akin to that of a human melomaniac.1910, Robert Means Lawrence, “The Healing Influence of Music”, in Primitive Psycho-therapy and Quackery, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge...
    Antonyms:
    melophobe

Examples of melomaniac in a sentence

  • He at length became a perfect melomaniac, and was always in danger of being indicted as a nuisance by his less scientific neighbours, whose ears were doomed to suffer both by night and by day.1850, Joseph C[lay] Neal, “Music Mad; or, The Melomaniac”, in Pic-nic Sketches, Dublin: Published by James M'Glashan, →OCLC, page 213:
  • Jaime was not a melomaniac, but his vagrant existence forced him with the crowd, and his accomplishment as an amateur pianist had led him to make his musical pilgrimage for two consecutive years.1919, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, “Bartering the Ancestral Name”, in Frances Douglas, transl., The Dead Command … From the Spanish Los Muertos...

Synonyms of melomaniac

Antonyms

  • melophobe

Forms of melomaniac

pluralmelomaniacs

Origin of melomaniac

From melo- (prefix meaning “music”) (from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song; melody, tune”)) + -maniac (from French maniaque, from Late Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός (maniakós), an adjectival form of μανία (manía, “madness; mad desire, compulsion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”)).

Words that rhyme with melomaniac

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Questions about melomaniac

What does melomaniac mean?
Melomaniac means one with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.
How do you use melomaniac in a sentence?
He at length became a perfect melomaniac, and was always in danger of being indicted as a nuisance by his less scientific neighbours, whose ears were doomed to suffer both by night and by day.
What part of speech is melomaniac?
Melomaniac is a noun.
How do you pronounce melomaniac?
Melomaniac is pronounced /ˌmɛlə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪak/ (UK).
What is the plural of melomaniac?
The plural of melomaniac is melomaniacs.

Words near melomaniac in the dictionary

  1. melomakarono
  2. melomakaronos
  3. melomane
  4. melomanes
  5. melomania
  6. melomaniac
  7. melomaniacal
  8. melomaniacs
  9. melomanic
  10. melomel
  11. melomels

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