Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A diminutive of the male given names Melchior, Melchor, Melech, Melfyn, Melhem, Melindro, Meliton, Melville, Melvin, or Melvyn.
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A diminutive of the female given names Amelia, Carmel, Melania, Melanie, Melantha, Melanthe, Melika, Melike, Melina, Melinda, Melissa, Melita, Melitta, or Melody.
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name
A surname.
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name
A language family, a branch of Atlantic-Congo, spoken from Guinea-Bissau to Liberia.
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A variety of the Mel-Khaonh language, a Bahnaric language of northeastern Cambodia.
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name
A frazione and former comune of Belluno, Veneto, Italy.
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noun
A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.
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noun
Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Initialism of minimum/minimal equipment list. The list of the minimum of operational equipment allowed for continued operation of the device equipping the equipment; by extension, the set of such equipment.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Abbreviation of miscellaneous equipment load.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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History
Borrowed from Italian and Venetan Mel.
Shortening of melody.
From Latin mel (“honey”). Doublet of mell.
