Melissa
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. the sister of Amalthea who nourished the infant Zeus with honey.
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Also Melissie, Melissy a female given name.
Example Sentences
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Melissa Robinson, from Guisborough, was also diagnosed with the disease in 2023.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Add to that Hurricane Melissa, which struck the island nation in October 2025, flooding fertile farmland and destroying crops.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
Analyst Melissa Weathers said that Applied Materials looks primed to benefit from recent chip-sector strength and an uptick in demand for its dynamic random-access memory chips — a major revenue segment for the company.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
And Melissa Howard of the New Orleans season showed me how you can be 5-foot-2 and unapologetically feisty — as someone with a similar build and demeanor, I took that to heart.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
I can’t trust what anybody is saying about Mom—not Aunt Melissa, not Camille, not the smug news anchors.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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