Usually means: Exaggerated emotion and plot twists.
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  1. melodrama: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. melodrama: Merriam-Webster
  3. melodrama: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. melodrama: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. melodrama: Collins English Dictionary
  6. melodrama: Vocabulary.com
  7. Melodrama, melodrama: Wordnik
  8. melodrama: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. melodrama: Wiktionary
  10. melodrama: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. melodrama: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. melodrama: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. melodrama: Dictionary.com
  14. melodrama: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. melodrama: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Melodrama (Lorde album), Melodrama (Vibe Tribe album), Melodrama (album), Melodrama (disambiguation), Melodrama: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Melodrama: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. melodrama: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. melodrama: Rhymezone
  20. Melodrama (nt), melodrama, melodrama, melodrama (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. melodrama: FreeDictionary.org
  22. melodrama: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. melodrama: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. melodrama: Legal dictionary

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  1. melodrama: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MELODRAMA: Acronym Finder

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  1. melodrama: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
noun:  (countable) 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 plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks
noun:  (uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

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