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  melos

  noun

  the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.
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  Melos

  noun

  a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).

melos

¹ American  

[mel-os, -ohs, mee-los, -lohs] / ˈmɛl ɒs, -oʊs, ˈmi lɒs, -loʊs /

noun

1. the succession of musical tones constituting a melody.

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Melos ² American  

[mee-los, -lohs, mel-os, -ohs, mee-laws] / ˈmi lɒs, -loʊs, ˈmɛl ɒs, -oʊs, ˈmi lɔs /

Also Milos.

noun

1. a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).

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Melos British  

/ ˈmiːlɒs /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Mílos.  an island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades: of volcanic origin, with hot springs; centre of early Aegean civilization, where the Venus de Milo was found. Pop: 4771 (2001). Area: 132 sq km (51 sq miles)

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Other Word Forms

• Melian
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of melos

First recorded in 1730–40, melos is from the Greek word mélos song, tune

Example Sentences

“After all,” she notes, “melodrama comes from melos, which means ‘music,’ ‘honey’; a drama queen is, nonetheless, a queen.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2019

Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892.

From Time Magazine Archive

What Wagner called the melos, the melody, or melodic outline, that begins at the beginning and ends only at the end—this is the thing.

From Haydn by Runciman, John F.

It characterizes the Christian chant or canticle, as a higher thing than a Greek ode, melos, or hymnos, or than a Latin carmen.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

In hâc uibe, lux solennis,         Ver aeternum, pax perennis,         In hâc odor implens caelos,         In hâc semper festum melos!

From The Golden Legend by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth