Melville

English

Proper noun

Melville (countable and uncountable, plural Melvilles)

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

Derived terms

• Melvillean, Melvillian
• Melville Forest
• Melville Island
• Melville Peninsula
• Mount Melville

See also

• Herman Melville (1819-1891), American novelist, essayist, and poet.

References

• “Melville”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.