melody

See also Melody

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Middle English melodie, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδία (melōidiā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

Pronunciation

• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈmɛlədi/, SAMPA: /"mEl@di/

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• (RP) IPA: /ˈmelədi/, SAMPA: /"mel@di/

Noun

melody (plural melodies)

1. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

   This song has a nice melody.

Synonyms

• (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase): tune

Derived terms

• melodic
• melodic
• melodious
• melodium

Related terms

• melodrama

Translations

sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

Armenian: մեղեդի (hy) (meġedi) Bosnian: melodija (bs) f. Bulgarian: мелодия (bg) (melodija) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 曲調 (cmn), 曲调 (cmn) (qǔdiào), 曲子 (cmn) (qǔzi), 歌曲 (cmn) (gēqǔ) Croatian: mèlōdija (hr) f. Czech: melodie (cs) f. Dutch: melodie (nl) f. Esperanto: melodio (eo) Estonian: meloodia Finnish: melodia (fi), sävel (fi) French: mélodie (fr) f. German: Melodie (de) f. Greek: μελωδία (el) (melodía) f. Hungarian: dallam (hu), melódia (hu) Ido: melodio (io)

Italian: melodia (it) f. Japanese: 歌曲 (ja), 調べ (ja), 旋律 (ja) Kurdish: ئاواز (ku) Latin: melodia (la) Norwegian: melodi (no) m. Polish: melodia (pl) f. Portuguese: melodia (pt) f. Romanian: melodie (ro) f. Russian: мелодия (ru) (m'elódija) f. Scottish Gaelic: fonn (gd) m., port (gd) m., mànran (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: мелодија (sr) f., напев (sr) m. Roman: melodija (sr) f., napev (sr) m. Slovene: melodija (sl) f. Spanish: melodía (es) f. Swedish: melodi (sv) c. Turkish: melodi (tr)

See also

• scale
• tune
• harmony
• music