Melville

American  

[mel-vil] / ˈmɛl vɪl /

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.

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Melville British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• Melvillean adjective

Example Sentences

However, Melville said she was concerned about continuous long-term funding.

From BBC

But what if what Melville meant was more akin to how Guo interprets it?

From Los Angeles Times

Herman Melville’s American classic was given new life by Kent’s dramatic engravings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here is Melville’s literary leviathan fantastically adorned with more than 270 of Kent’s black-and-white illustrations, many of them a full page in size.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many major poets are absent—Poe, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot and Pound, for starters—because they never appeared in the pages of the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal