Melody

Quick meaning: Melody is a noun meaning A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

Meaning

A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

Example Sentences

Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.

There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.

Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.

Word Forms

• melodies

Synonyms for melody

Depending on context, synonyms include strain, line, air.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include line, strain, air, rhythm, song, music.

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