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What does Melville mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Melville? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A Scottish habitational surname​ of Norman origin, from Malleville in Normandy.
  2. Herman Melville (1819-1891), an American novelist, essayist, and poet. He is best remembered for the novel Moby-Dick.
  3. His works or media adaptations of his works.
Name
  1. A male given name of French and Old French origin.
    1. (meaning, history) From the bad or poor settlement.
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Carlow might have had a final say of the half when they wheeled a scrum, won the put-in for Melville to drive on the right.
An electric staff block system was in use between Melville Jct. and Fraxa Jct.
Dundas, created Viscount Melville in 1802, put severe pressure on liberals while conceding some radical demands.
It sounds like the opening line to a Jean-Pierre Melville scenario and the film has a similar starkness to it.
The veteran phonetist, Alexander Melville Bell, has accepted the presidency of the newly formed section.
The heist sequence circles the formalist Melville back to the place where realism and formalism intersect.

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