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melomaniacs

melomaniacs is the plural of melomaniac.

Meaning of melomaniac

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
    Antonyms:
    melophobe

Questions about melomaniacs

What is melomaniacs the plural of?
Melomaniacs is the plural of melomaniac.

Words near melomaniacs in the dictionary

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

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