MELVILLE

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

1. United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)

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

• MELVILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Herman Melville; Melville

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

After this I went to see Melville, at whose house I had first met Garcia, but I found that he really knew rather less about him than I did.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Melville, the bank cashier, fascinated him, and he resolved to investigate him at the first opportunity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Among these are the family of a retired brewer called Melville, living at Abermarle Mansion, Kensington.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)