Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes” ( Howard Kaplan).
- n. Geology A metamorphic rock formation created from sediments and rocks scraped off the top of a downward-moving tectonic plate in a subduction zone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mixture; a medley; usually, an uncombined mingling or association of elements, objects, or individuals; in lit., a miscellany.
- n. A French dress-goods of cotton chain and woolen weft.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of melange.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mixture; a medley.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a motley assortment of things
Etymologies
- From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges ("set of diverse elements"), derived from mescler ("to mingle, mix up") (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō ("mix") + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French meslance, from mesler, to mix; see meddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
intertanglement, mixture, commingle, commixtion, immixture, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, minglement, mingle-mangle, blendure and 60 more...
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Tricky Words from French
Loanwords from French -- both established and wet behind the ears -- that are tricky to spell or pronounce properly.
trompe l'oeil, hors d'oeuvre, oeuvre, objet d'art, objet trouvé, contretemps, milieu, métier, mise en scène, mise en place, éclat, faineant and 64 more...
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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English with Tongue
French words and phrases used by English speakers.
objet d'art, nom de plume, petite, bon voyage, avant-garde, faux pas, faux, touché, répondez, s'il vo..., rouge, papier mâché, joie de vivre and 85 more...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 351 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL M
macabre, machination, macrocosm, maelstrom, magisterial, magnanimous, magnate, maladaptive, malady, malediction, maleficent, malevolent and 96 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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jenali's Words
clandestine, rakish, pragmatic, buttressed, intelligentisa, mélange, imtemperate, perpetual, catalyst, incongruous, cerebral, barrage and 10 more...
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Aliisza's Words
peculiar, syndactyly, efficacy, transcendent, visceral, antagonist, plausible, velocity, seraphim, vanadium, autophobia, evanescent and 86 more...
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simple & useful 17
lurid, idiomatically, lachrymosity, mezzanine, ellipsis, vituperatively, iniquitous, ghastly, recherché, effervesce, arrears, humbugged and 82 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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trying to be literary
vernacular, mélange, archetype, pastiche, exposition, epigram, apocryphal, aphorism, enjambment, periphrasis, circumlocution, synecdoche and 15 more...
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