Melville

[mel-vil]

noun

1. Herman, 1819–91, U.S. novelist.

2. Lake, a saltwater lake on the E coast of Labrador, Newfoundland, in E Canada, separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow inlet: the mouth of the Churchill River is at its W end. About 1,133 sq. mi. (2,935 sq. km).

3. a male given name.

Melville

/ ˈmɛlvɪl /

noun

1. Herman. 1819–91, US novelist and short-story writer. Among his works, Moby Dick (1851) and Billy Budd (written 1891, published 1924) are outstanding

Other Word Forms

• Melvillean adjective

Example Sentences

Two sections, M’Clure Strait and Viscount Melville Sound, are only passable for two to five weeks, about a third of the season length 20 years ago, according to the researchers.

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These pages on the whaling industry even go so far as to distort Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.”

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Its mission was to produce prose in the style of Herman Melville’s famous story “Bartleby the Scrivener,” about an office worker who responds to his boss’s requests with “I would prefer not to.”

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Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".

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Stamp's leap to stardom came when he was cast in the title role of a 1962 film, Billy Budd, based on the Herman Melville novella.

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