melody
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
she was humming an air from Beethoven
Types & categories
- music hypernym
- tucket hyponym
- glissando hyponym
- roulade hyponym
- leitmotiv hyponym
- theme song hyponym
- theme song hyponym
- melodic theme hyponym
- voice hyponym
Parts & wholes
- musical phrase part meronym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes
Types & categories
- musical perception hypernym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | melodize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | melodic |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | melodious |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | musical phrase |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | music |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tucket |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | glissando |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | roulade |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | leitmotiv |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | theme song |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | theme song |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | melodic theme |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | voice |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | melodic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | melodious |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical perception |