noun (plural melodies)
1 [C] a tune, especially the main tune in a piece of music written for several instruments or voices:
a haunting melody * The melody is then taken up by the flutes.
2 [C] a piece of music or a song with a clear or simple tune:
old Irish melodies
3 [U] the arrangement of musical notes in a tune:
a few bars of melody drifted towards us
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for melody is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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