Love is a comedy in France, a tragedy in England, an opera in Italy, and a melodrama in Germany.
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Melodrama
//ˈmɛləˌdɹɑːmə//
Synonyms for "melodrama" (115 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (57)
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37 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مِيلُودْرَامَا noun (romantic drama)
Armenian
1 entries- մելոդրամա noun (romantic drama)
Belarusian
1 entries- меладра́ма noun (romantic drama)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мелодра́ма noun (romantic drama)
Catalan
1 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 情節劇 /情节剧 noun (romantic drama)
Czech
1 entries- melodram noun (romantic drama)
Esperanto
1 entries- melodramo noun (romantic drama)
Finnish
1 entries- melodraama noun (romantic drama)
French
1 entries- mélodrame noun (romantic drama)
Georgian
1 entries- მელოდრამა noun (romantic drama)
German
1 entries- Melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Greek
1 entries- μελόδραμα noun (romantic drama)
Hebrew
1 entries- מלודרמה noun (romantic drama)
Hindi
1 entries- नाटक noun (romantic drama)
Indonesian
1 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Italian
1 entries- melodramma noun (romantic drama)
Japanese
2 entries- メロ noun (romantic drama)
- メロドラマ noun (romantic drama)
Kazakh
1 entries- мелодрама noun (romantic drama)
Korean
2 entries- 멜로 noun (romantic drama)
- 멜로드라마 noun (romantic drama)
Macedonian
1 entries- мелодра́ма noun (romantic drama)
Malay
1 entries- ميلودراما noun (romantic drama)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Polish
1 entries- melodramat noun (romantic drama)
Portuguese
1 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Romanian
1 entries- melodramă noun (romantic drama)
Russian
1 entries- мелодра́ма noun (romantic drama)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
- мелодрама noun (romantic drama)
Slovak
1 entries- melodráma noun (romantic drama)
Spanish
1 entries- melodrama noun (romantic drama)
Tagalog
1 entries- himigdula noun (romantic drama)
Turkish
1 entries- melodram noun (romantic drama)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мелодра́ма noun (romantic drama)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.
Source: wiktionary
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.
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