melody

/ˈmɛl.ə.di/

name 2noun 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

beautiful, lovely, sweet | bold, simple, strong | complex | haunting, memorable | familiar, popular, traditional

VERB + MELODY

play, sing | hear

have

The opening theme of that movie has a memorable melody that stays with you.

write

Definitions

noun

A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.

There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.

name

A female given name from English.

Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.

A surname.

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Synonyms

noun — a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

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Idioms & Phrases

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Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.

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There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.

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Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The stra

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Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.

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The song had a melody that went like this.

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This melody reminds me of my school days.

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