Melville

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Melville

proper noun Melvilles

  1. countable A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin, from Malleville in Normandy.
  2. countable, uncountable A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  3. countable, uncountable A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. countable, uncountable A suburb of Perth, Western Australia, in the City of Melville.
  5. countable, uncountable A local government area in Perth, Western Australia; in full, the City of Melville.
  6. countable, uncountable A southern suburb of Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
  7. countable, uncountable A town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
  8. countable, uncountable A township in Renville County, Minnesota.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Sweet Grass County, Montana.
  10. countable, uncountable A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York.
  11. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Foster County, North Dakota.
  12. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon.
  13. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Middletown and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, named after Admiral George W. Melville.
  14. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.

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Closest in meaning: herman melville, bissett, whyte, balfour, herman, author, novelist, writer, storyteller, essayist, poet, mariner, whaleman, allegorist, wordsmith, scribe

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@misc{melville_2026,
  title = {Melville},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/melville},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}