Melville meaning
A masculine name: var. Melvil.
noun
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