MELIAN

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Melian was a Maia of the race of the Valar. She fell in love with the Elven-king Thingol and with him ruled the kingdom of Doriath. After Thingol's death, she left Middle-earth for Valinor where she mourned the loss of her husband and her daughter, Lúthien.

Date "MELIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

"MELIAN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Malian, malign, median, medina, melon, million, myelin.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Cuba	The crowd then went to the house of Manuel Melian, also a member of the National Transitional Council to Democracy, and threw stones and bottles at his house. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

The following table summarizes the usage of "MELIAN" 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
Melian	Last name	100	70,111
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: maline, menial.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n"
	-1 letter: alien, aline, amine, anile, anime, elain, email, leman, liane, liman, limen, maile, minae.
	-2 letters: alme, amen, amie, amin, anil, elan, ilea, lain, lame, lane, lean, lien, lima, lime, limn, line, mail, main, male, mane, meal, mean, mien, mile, mina, mine, nail, name, nema.
	-3 letters: ail, aim, ain, ale, ami, ane, ani, elm, lam.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n"
	+1 letter: ailment, aliment, alumine, geminal, impanel, inflame, laminae, lineman, mailmen, malines, manille, maniple, manlier, manlike, marline, melanic, melanin, menials, minable, mineral, seminal.
	+2 letters: ailments, alienism, aliments, alumines, analcime, antimale, bailment, bailsmen, bimensal, calamine, emailing, empaling, endemial, filament, filename, flamines, germinal, gleaming, hymenial, impanels, inchmeal, inflamed, inflamer, inflames, laminate, laminose, landmine, liegeman, ligament, limacine, linesman, maidenly, mainline, maligned, maligner, malinger, manciple, mandible, manilles, maniples, manliest, marlines, medaling, medianly, melamine, melanian, melanics, melanins, melanism, melanist, melanite, melanize, melanoid, menially, meniscal, metaling, mineable, minerals, mislearn, mycelian, rifleman, semolina, smaltine, tegminal, terminal, tramline, velamina.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 4C 49 41 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 004C 0049 0041 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
melian	16
dialogue melian	8
jackson melian	6
paul melian shoes	3
melian shoes	3
debate melian	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MELIAN

Specialty Definition: Melian

Non-Fiction Usage: MELIAN

Human Rights

Cuba

Name Usage Frequency: MELIAN

Frequency of Internet Keywords: MELIAN

melian

dialogue melian

jackson melian

paul melian shoes

melian shoes

debate melian

Anagrams: MELIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: MELIAN

4D 45 4C 49 41 4E

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01001101 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000001 01001110

&#77 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#65 &#78

004D 0045 004C 0049 0041 004E

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