Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
melodic and song-like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a melody (as distinguished from recitative)
Etymologies
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from Italian arioso
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Examples
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You who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us were added to form an ariose hymn of praise that was sung the first time during Christmas mass and then in all feast days.
General Audience: God’s glory, peace and man’s salvation in Christmas Argent 2006
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Without being at all ariose, the symphony is full of melody.
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"Dreaming," which is now sombre, now fierce with outbursts of agony, but always a melody, always ariose.
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