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melo·dy (melə dē)

noun pl. melodies -·dies

    1. pleasing sounds or arrangement of sounds in sequence
    2. musical quality, as in the arrangement of words
  1. Music
    1. a sequence of single tones, usually in the same key or mode, to produce a rhythmic whole; often, a tune, air, or song
    2. the element of form having to do with the arrangement of single tones in sequence
    3. the leading part, or voice, in a harmonic composition; the air

Etymology: ME melodie < OFr < LL melodia < Gr melōidia < melos, song (see melic) + aeidein, to sing: see ode

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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