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单词 melomane
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melomanen.

Brit. /ˈmɛlə(ʊ)meɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɛləˌmeɪn/
Forms: 1800s mélomane, 1800s– melomane.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mélomane.
Etymology: < French mélomane (1781) < mélo- melo- comb. form + -mane -mane comb. form. Compare earlier melomanic adj.
An enthusiast for, or lover of, music; a melomaniac.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun]
symphone1572
philharmonic1762
music lover1822
melomaniac1836
melomane1857
musical1861
musicophile1931
1857 Fraser's Mag. May 504/2 A gourmet and a mélomane.
1890 Cent. Dict. Melomane, same as melomaniac.
1923 R. H. Myers Mod. Mus. vii. 88 An entirely ignorant and illiterate person..might conceivably be just as profoundly affected by music as the most cultured ‘melomane’.
1994 Folk Roots Mar. 19/1 Senegal's ‘melomanes’ are well catered for with not one but two local TV music programmes.
1999 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 June 20 Every month he buys tickets to more concerts than he has time to attend. But Stevenson is no moist-eyed melomane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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