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MELODRAME

Definition: MELODRAME

MELODRAME

Noun

1. Melodrama.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "MELODRAME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Etymology: Melodrame \Mel"o*drame\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: MELODRAME

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
The Drama	Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: MELODRAME

Domain	Title
Books	A melodrame entitled "Treason, stratagems, and spoils." (reference) Verdi: La Vie, Le Melodrame (reference) Vrijeme melodrame : dramska knjizevnost u Bosni i Hercegovini u doba austrougarske vladavine (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: MELODRAME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-m-m-o-r"
	-1 letter: remolade.
	-2 letters: earldom, emerald, melamed, modeler, remodel.
	-3 letters: areole, dammer, dealer, dermal, elodea, emerod, lammed, leader, loader, loamed, marled, medlar, melder, molder, morale, oedema, ordeal, radome, rammed, reamed, reload, remade, remold, roamed.
	-4 letters: adeem, adore, alder, ameer, amole, armed, derma, dolma, domal, dream, eared, edema, elder, emmer, erode, lader, lamed, lamer, laree, lemma, madre.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-m-m-o-r"
	+1 letter: mesodermal.
	+3 letters: immoderately, memorialised, memorialized.
	+4 letters: melodramatise, melodramatize, recommendable.
	+5 letters: commercialised, commercialized, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatized, melodramatizes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: MELODRAME

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 4C 4F 44 52 41 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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