Melville meaning

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A masculine name: var. Melvil.
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1819-91; U.S. novelist & poet.
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Island of Canada in the Arctic Ocean, north of Victoria Island: 16,274 sq mi (42,149 sq km)
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Island of Australia, off the N coast: 2,240 sq mi (5,802 sq km)
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Origin of melville

  • after R. Saunders, Viscount Melville (1771-1851), First Lord of the Admiralty
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

Melville Sentence Examples

  • Melville, Brighton, its History, its Follies and its Fashions (London, 1909).

  • Farther to the west, Van Diemen's Gulf, though much smaller, forms a better-protected bay, having Melville Island between it and the ocean; while beyond this, Queen's Channel and Cambridge Gulf form inlets about 14° 50' S.

  • On the north coast are Melville and Bathurst Islands; the former, which is 75 m.

  • per annum, and along a strip of country south from Cape Melville to Rockingham Bay the average rainfall exceeds 70 in.

  • Mr Stuart, in 1862, made his third and final attempt to traverse the continent from Adelaide along a central line, which, inclining a little westward, reaches the north coast of Arnheim Land, opposite Melville Island.

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