Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things
- n. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
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)
Examples
“That they do so by means of a mental state bought on by melange is also significant.”
“Drop the cleaning fluid and the phantom scents and the word melange, and, depending where the joss sticks are, the farther away from the cigarette sneaking clerk the better, I'd buy this.”
“Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko says a first consignment of the liquid component, known as melange, was taken last month to Russia for recycling into chemicals for civilian use.”
“-this book, rather than, say, a senseless word melange from a certain governor clear on other end of the country?”
“-- this book, rather than, say, a senseless word melange from a certain governor clear on other end of the country?”
“So, this is the kind of melange out of which good gangster movies could come.”
“The "melange", as I call it, is rather an innovation in English verse, and to be found only rarely.”
“And the third success is what I should call the "melange".”
“At Newsweek's request, the band edited together a two-and-a-half-minut sonic "melange" of the record's songs -- check it out below!”
“Pine notes pop up as well in this fruity melange which is a nice blend of bitter and sweet aromas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘melange’.
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Classic
mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
Ballardoperation mindfuck, pataphysics, wahrheitssensible..., polymorphism, postprandial, covalent, stygian, lucus a non lucendo, kafkaesque, leitmotif, fugacious, ablate and 77 more...
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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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my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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gerwitz's Words
erudite, autodidactic, callipygian, ouroboros, zounds, fie, wabi, sabi, gedankenexperiment, zeitgeist, eliminativism, aether and 157 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
Tweets
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bilby Eggers should give up eating seafood. Aug 5, 2012
RevBrently From Dave Eggers' "Zeitoun," p. 155: "It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals." Aug 5, 2012
typado Melange: also called the "spice" – is the name of the fictional drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and derivative works.
This word is used enough in reference, scholarship and in conversation that it should be included as a definition. Jun 7, 2012
brtom Melange mine own, the unseen and the seen,
Mysterious ocean where the streams empty
Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok" Jan 9, 2008