Melville

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 Perth, Western Australia, in the City of Melville.
4. The City of Melville, a local government area in Perth, Western Australia.
5. A census-designated place in Middletown and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States, named after Admiral George W. Melville.

• Melvillean, Melvillian

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

• “Melville”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.