Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

melody

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also:Melody

English

[edit]
EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

FromMiddle Englishmelodie,melodye, fromOld Frenchmelodie, fromLatinmelodia, fromAncient Greekμελῳδίᾱ(melōidíā,singing, chanting), fromμέλος(mélos,musical phrase) +ἀοιδή(aoidḗ,song), contracted formᾠδή(ōidḗ).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

melody (pluralmelodies)

  1. A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
    Alyssa likes to singmelodies while playing the drums.
    • 1905,Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, inThe Gods of Pegāna, London:[Charles] Elkin Mathews, [],→OCLC,page15:
      There is amelody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
    • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, inThe Subtle Minotaur:
      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 strange elusiveness of the soft, insistentmelody seemed to draw her forward.

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]

Related terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]
sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase

See also

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=melody&oldid=87765888"
Categories:
Hidden categories:

[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2025 Movatter.jp