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Meaning of "melancholies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MELANCHOLIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELANCHOLIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Melancholies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELANCHOLIES

melanaemia
melancholia
melancholiac
melancholic
melancholically
melancholily
melancholiness
melancholious
melancholy
Melanchthon
Melanesia
Melanesian
melange
melanian
melanic
melanin
melanisation
melanism
melanist
melanistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELANCHOLIES

amphibolies
applies
as the crow flies
colies
coolies
duopolies
embolies
epibolies
families
flies
goolies
holies
holy of holies
molies
monopolies
oligopolies
replies
roly-polies
supplies
woolies

Synonyms and antonyms of melancholies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MELANCHOLIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «melancholies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of melancholies

Translation of «melancholies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MELANCHOLIES

Find out the translation of melancholies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of melancholies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «melancholies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

melancholies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

melancolías
570 millions of speakers

English

melancholies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

melancholies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

melancholies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

меланхолии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

melancolias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

melancholies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mélancolies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melankolies
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Melancholiker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

melancholies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

melancholies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Melancholies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

melancholies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

melancholies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खराखी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hüzünlerle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malinconie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

melancholies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

меланхолії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

melancolii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

melancholies
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

melancholies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

melancholies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

melancholies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of melancholies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANCHOLIES»

The term «melancholies» is used very little and occupies the 154.037 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANCHOLIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «melancholies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «melancholies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about melancholies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELANCHOLIES»

Discover the use of melancholies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to melancholies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Melancholies of Knowledge: Literature in the Age of Science
Scholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature's place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science.
Margery Arent Safir, 1999
2
Exceptions and melancholies: poems, 1986-2006
Enhanced by twenty-three new poems, offers a two-decade retrospective drawn Angel's three previously published collections.
Ralph Angel, 2006
3
Dreams and Melancholies
The author is presenting this book with love and respect to all readers. Mrs. Barreras is an American citizen who lives in the Golden State with her family.
Alila Barreras, 2008
4
A System of Practical Medicine: Comprised in a Series of ...
Some melancholies obstinately refuse all kinds of nourishment; some have been known to have passed many days without eating although very hungry, prevented by hallucinations and illusions which produced chimerical fears. One dreada ...
Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, 1842
5
Mental Maladies; a Treatise on Insanity
The advancement which pathological anatomy has made in our days, permits us to offer a reason for this phenomenon. It is very true, that we find in the brain of some melancholies, a reddish, yellow fluid ; but every one now knows, that this is  ...
Etienne Esquirol, 1845
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The New Spirit-Controlled Woman
Self-discipline is another typical hallmark of melancholies.They are the most likely of the temperaments to follow directions, maintain a physical fitness regimen, and keep the commitment of their wedding vows. Unfortunately, they may even ...
Beverly LaHaye, 2005
7
Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the ...
CHAPTER. 2. Melville's. Fraternal. Melancholies. That mortal man who hath more ofjoy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest ofall men was the Man ofSorrows, and the ...
Elizabeth Barnes, 2011
8
Melancholics in Love: Representing Women's Depression and ...
Most broadly, Melancholies in Love attempts to join psychoanalytic theories of melancholia and mourning (mainly in the spirit of Julia Kristeva) with cultural studies and its attention to power relations in cultural practice (in the spirit of Michel ...
Frances L. Restuccia, 2000
9
Wired that Way: The Comprehensive Personality Plan
Of course, they can never be perfect enough for the Perfect Melancholy to praise them—the Perfect Melancholies will feel that if they offer the praise the Popular Sanguines need, the Popular Sanguines might think that what they did was good  ...
Marita Littauer, 2006
10
The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science
Lateral ventricles in 29 very full of serum, in 23 ready to burst ; in 10 among 24 melancholies astonishingly distended. Third ventricle quite rail in 57 of 100 maniacs, and in 16 of 24 melancholies. Fourth ventricle ready to burst in 80 out of 100 ...
‎1835

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELANCHOLIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term melancholies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mandu's flute man, winning fans with his raw talent
He sings melancholies and plays his pawli (a handamade two-foot bamboo flute) for hours in a trance-like state after having consumed mahua. «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»
2
Border Bash Sweet Sixteen Continues
With an ear for melancholies from years ago, his work is a tribute to legendary songwriters, such as Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons. «Bristol Herald Courier, Jun 15»
3
Add to Watch Later
Their discussions—about infidelity, death, homosexuality, religion, melancholies past and present—are gratifyingly candid but feel as if they're coming from a ... «TheStranger.com, May 15»
4
Front to Back, Top to Bottom, a New Book Series Reimagines How …
The relationships at play in Fantasies of the Library are with her own essay, “Melancholies of the Paginated Mind: The Library as Curatorial ... «Hyperallergic, Apr 15»
5
Book review: The Refuge by Kenneth Mackenzie
Anyone who wants sophisticated wartime brooding ebbing into the securities and melancholies of the 50s – with obsessive love of a woman, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
6
Indifferent or awkward: what happens when North and South …
... to an outsider, it remains a sad and awkward thing to observe: these Beijing airport interactions are one of the many minor melancholies that ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
7
A strong week for NO book events
Angel's latest collection, Your Moon, won the 2013 Green Rose Poetry Prize. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986 – 2006 received the ... «NolaVie, Mar 15»
8
The camera obscura: 'How To Be Both' by Ali Smith
As another character puts it, George's years of self-discovery will now “be interrupted by real mournings and real melancholies.” Written from ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb 15»
9
Classic CD review: Argerich/Barenboim: Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky
Schubert's gentle march-like theme, tinged with passing melancholies, is spun through all manner of delicious decoration, although the seventh ... «New Zealand Herald, Nov 14»
10
Paris museum with the biggest Picasso collection reopens after five …
... through the sombre melancholies of his “blue period” and his mellower rose confection to the fractured geometries of his cubist experiments. «The Australian, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Melancholies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/melancholies>. Apr 2024 ».
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