| anglais > français | |
| melodrama | |
| 1. n. mélodrame. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| melodrama | |
| 1. n. (archaic) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. |  |
| 2. n. A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra play |  |
| the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio". |  |
| 3. n. (figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion. |  |