Noun: melodrama
| Singular | melodrama |
| Plural | melodramas; melodramata |
Sample Sentences
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The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.
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Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends. [1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:]
Nouns inflected like melodrama
urinoma,
seroma,
rhabdomyoblastoma,
xyloma,
emphysema,
xenoma,
granuloma,
palisade parenchyma,
microadenoma,
gnathosoma,
melodrama,
gliosarcoma,
charisma,
Kaposi's sarcoma,
papilloma,
sublemma,
paranatellon,
cementoma,
osteochondroma,
melanocarcinoma, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French mélodrame, the second element refashioned by analogy with drama; ultimately from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”, “member”, “song”, “tune”, “melody”) + δρᾶμα (drâma, “deed”, “theatrical act”). Compare melodrame. Cognate to German Melodram and Spanish melodrama. See: French Nouns '
mélodrame', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέλος', Spanish Nouns '
melodrama'.