Meaning

(informal, British) Abbreviation of melodrama..

Example Sentences

Bar burlesque & Penleyan comedy I am becoming tolerant of this insipid British drama. Even bad melo doesn’t cause me to vomit as it did of old.

One is a melodrama about Bolshevism—the break up of the Armies in 1917—what one wd call a West End melodrama as opposed to a Lyceum melo.

She learned to read and write on the road and between scenes backstage, under the tutorship of the “female heavy” of a melodrama company. Meanwhile Mary listened and learned of the world about her. She heard a very great deal of the chesty gossip of melo actors discussing “when I was with Belasco,” and came to learn that on this wonderful Broadway Belasco was master.

True life was melo about the first woman the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.)

The Roots of Heaven..John Huston’s melo about elephant conservation.

“And a melo?” Miss Collins asked. Richard looked to Miss Joyce for help. “A melodrama! You don’t know?” A somewhat astonished Miss Joyce commented. “The only plays melo companies perform are melodramas. There are several of them touring out there,” broadly gesturing with her arm. “They’re known as ‘blood and thunders.’ A good melo actor can work all year round.[…]Melos are a good place for a young actor to start,” she added.

Word Forms

• melos

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When Should You Use Melo?

Use melo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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