melody
nounEtymology
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).
Definitions
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.
A female given name from English.
- Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborMelodie
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.
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.
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