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17 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• melodrama n. (Archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
• melodrama n. (Countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment…
• melodrama n. (Uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • melodrama n. Melodrama (a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations).
  • melodrama n. Melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion).
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • melodrama n. A melodrama.
• Romanian
  • melodramă n. Melodrama.
• Serbo-croatian
  • melodrama n. Melodrama.

— English word, defined in French —

• melodrama n. Mélodrame.

— In German —

• Melodrama S. Theater: dichterischer Vortrag, der von Instrumentalmusik begleitet wird.
• Melodrama S. Pejorativ: Film, Theaterstück oder sonstige Handlung, bei…
• Melodrama S. Übertragen: emotional geführte Auseinandersetzung oder Diskussion.

— In Dutch —

• melodrama n. (Kunst) een toneelvorm begeleid door muziek, gewoonlijk met…
• melodrama n. Een overdreven op het gevoel gemikt optreden.

— In Spanish —

• melodrama s. Cine, Literatura, Teatro. Especie de drama, de acción ordinariamente…
• melodrama s. Música, Teatro. Drama puesto en música; ópera.
• melodrama s. Literatura. Drama compuesto para este fin; letra de la ópera.

35 English words from 8 English definitions

abounding abounding␣in accompaniment action agonizing and any Archaic blown blown␣out certain colloquial Countable drama effect figuratively having intensify kind kind␣of melodrama musical out out␣of out␣of␣proportion proportion romantic scenes sentiment situation situations the uncountable which with

13 English words from 9 foreign definitions

Cine der door drama een emotional este Film fin het met para Theater

34 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

acción Auseinandersetzung begeleid begleitet bei compuesto de␣la dichterischer Diskussion Especie geführte gevoel gewoonlijk Handlung Kunst letra Literatura Mélodrame música muziek oder ópera optreden ordinariamente overdreven Pejorativ puesto sonstige Teatro Theaterstück Übertragen von Vortrag wird

28 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

melodramas melodramata melodramatic melo-dramatic melodramatics melodramatise melodramatism melodramatist melodramatize melodramatical melodramatised melodramatises melodramatisms melodramatists melodramatized melodramatizes melodramaturge melodramaturgy melodramaticism melodramatising melodramatizing melodramaturges melodramatically melodramaticisms melodramatisation melodramatization melodramatisations melodramatizations

3 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unmelodramatic nonmelodramatic unmelodramatically

31 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ama Ama AMA Dra DRA dram DRAM drama Drama elo Elo lod Lod LoD LOD Lo'd mel Mel MEL -mel- melo Melo melo- ODR Óðr ram Ram RAM Rama Rāma -rama

31 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ama Ama AMA Amar ard Ard ARD 'ard -ard dol Dol DOL dole Dole DOLE Lem LEM L.E.M. mar Mar MAR mar- Mar. -mar- mard ole OLE olé -ole 'Ole RDO

4 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

dermatomal Lampadrome malacoderm melodramas

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

melodrame

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