MELEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does melee mean? 

• MELEE (noun)
  The noun MELEE has 1 sense:

1. a noisy riotous fight

  Familiarity information: MELEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A noisy riotous fight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle royal; melee; scrimmage

Hypernyms ("melee" is a kind of...):

disturbance (the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion)

 Context examples 

The general public, however, which most unreasonably entertained a grievance at having been excluded, stormed the doors at a quarter to eight, after a prolonged melee in which several people were injured, including Inspector Scoble of H. Division, whose leg was unfortunately broken.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)