Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - melodrama
Melodrama
melodrama
n. 1 a sensational dramatic piece with crude appeals to the emotions and usu. a happy ending. 2 the genre of drama of this type. 3 language, behaviour, or an occurrence suggestive of this. 4 hist. a play with songs interspersed and with orchestral music accompanying the action. Derivatives melodramatic adj. melodramatically adv. melodramatist n. melodramatize v.tr. (also -ise). Etymology: earlier melodrame f. F m{eacute}lodrame f. Gk melos music + F drame DRAMA
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noun Etymology: modification of French mélodrame, from Greek melos song + French drame drama, from Late Latin drama Date: 1802 1. a work (as a movie or play) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and physical action over characterization, the genre of dramatic literature constituted by such works, something resembling a ~ especially in having a sensational or theatrical quality, ~tist noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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