melodies
- 1Plural of melody.
The composer wove three distinct melodies through the final movement.
Folk songs from the region share a handful of recurring melodies.
Note
A regular plural that follows the spelling rule for nouns ending in a consonant plus -y: the y gives way to -ies, as in melody to melodies. The plural belongs to the musical noun, a sequence of notes that makes up a phrase, so it counts separate tunes, such as three melodies woven through one movement. Melody is also a given name and a surname, but those uses name people rather than count things.
melodies is a form of melody
melody, noun: A sequence of musical notes arranged one after another to form a recognizable musical phrase. Full entry
- Forms
- melodymelodies plural
- Spelling
- melody → melodies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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