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melo·drama \ˈmelə+ˌ-\ noun Etymology: modification (influenced by drama) of French mélodrame, from mélo- melo- (I) + drame drama, from Late Latin drama — more at drama 1. a. : a romantic sensational stage play interspersed with songs and orchestral music b. : a recitation of a dramatic or lyric text to a musical background — compare duodrama, monodrama 2. a. : a play characterized by extravagant theatricality, subordination of characterization to plot, and predominance of physical action b. : the genre of dramatic literature constituted by such plays 3. : something resembling a melodrama; especially : melodramatic events or behavior < a monster of villainy whose life and death prove that the most lurid melodrama still exists — Richard Watts > |