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Date "MELO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
Crosswords: MELO |
| Specialty definitions using "MELO": Chlorotic leaf spot ♦ Merlo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MELO": melon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MELO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (badger), Italian (apple-tree). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Especial André Melo (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | London life a new & original melo drama : by Martyn Field and Arthur Shirley. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Quinta das Torres" by Luis Alves Commentary: "This estate was given to D. Maria da Silva and D. Pedro D'Eça as a wedding present. As there were no direct heirs, the property passed to another family branch, the Corte-Real family, then to the Saldanha family, and then to the Melo family, Lords of Murc" |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Macau | Melo Egidio became the first Governor of Macau to visit China. (references) |
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| "MELO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "MELO" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MELO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Melo | Last name | 2,000 | 5,864 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "MELO": Cicumis Melo ♦ cucumis melo ♦ cucumis melo cantalupensis ♦ cucumis melo inodorus ♦ cucumis melo reticulatus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "MELO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 真桑瓜 (Cucumis melo var Makuwa, melon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まくわうり (Cucumis melo var Makuwa, melon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elomay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MELO": melodeon, melodeons, melodia, melodias, melodic, melodica, melodically, melodicas, melodies, melodious, melodiously, melodiousness, melodiousnesses, melodise, melodised, melodises, melodising, melodist, melodists, melodize, melodized, melodizer, melodizers, melodizes, melodizing, melodrama, melodramas, melodramatic, melodramatically, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatising, melodramatist, melodramatists, melodramatization, melodramatizations, melodramatize, melodramatized, melodramatizes, melodramatizing, melody, meloid, meloids, melon, melons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "MELO": pomelo, pumelo, pummelo. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MELO": ameloblast, ameloblasts, camelopard, camelopards, countermelodies, countermelody, muskmelon, muskmelons, pomelos, pumelos, pummelos, unmelodious, unmelodiousness, unmelodiousnesses, watermelon, watermelons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mole. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: elm, mel, mol, ole. | |
-2 letters: el, em, lo, me, mo, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: amole, celom, golem, lemon, melon, model, mohel, moles, morel, motel, oleum. | |
+2 letters: amoles, celoms, cleome, coelom, comely, compel, cormel, dolmen, emboli, emboly, employ, golems, homely, lemons, lemony, loamed, lomein, loment, loomed, mellow, melody, meloid, melons, melton, merlon, merlot, mobile, mobled, models, module, mohels, moiled, moiler, molded, molder, molest, molies, moline, mollie, molted, molten, molter, mooley, morale, morels, morsel, motels, motile, motley, mottle, oilmen, oleums, omelet, osmole, phloem, pomelo, pommel, pumelo, remold, seldom, solemn, telome, volume. | |
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