Definition of Melody

1. Noun. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence. "She was humming an air from Beethoven"


2. Noun. The perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes.
Exact synonyms: Tonal Pattern
Generic synonyms: Musical Perception
Derivative terms: Melodious, Melodious

Definition of Melody

1. n. A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

Definition of Melody

1. Proper noun. (English female given name). ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Melody

1. an agreeable succession of musical sounds [n -DIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melody

melodramatics
melodramatise
melodramatised
melodramatises
melodramatising
melodramatist
melodramatists
melodramatization
melodramatizations
melodramatize
melodramatized
melodramatizes
melodramatizing
melodrame
melodrames
melody (current term)
melody pipe
melodyless
melodylike
meloe
melograph
melographs
meloid
meloids
melolonthid beetle
melolonthidian
melomakarona
melomania
melomaniac

Literary usage of Melody

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"Cicero justly observes, that in one continued sound there is no melody : '' Numerus ... It will probably occur, that melody, if it depend on long and short ..."

2. Folio (1882)
"When we ask some one to sing a song —some particular song to which we liave taker u fancy—it is not the melody we ask for, but the words. ..."

3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"At any rate you can tell that a song or ode has three parts— the words, the melody, and the rhythm;—that degree of knowledge I may presuppose? ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In musical philosophy and history the word " melody " must be used in a very abstract sense, as that aspect of music which is concerned only with the pitch ..."

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