melody

noun
/ˈmɛl.ə.di/

Etymology

From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

  1. derived from μελῳδίᾱ
  2. derived from melodia
  3. derived from melodie
  4. inherited from melodie

Definitions

  1. A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

    • 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.
  2. A female given name from English.

    • Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.
  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at melody. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at melody. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at melody

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA