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PRONUNCIATION OF MELVILLE ISLAND

Melville Island  [ˈmɛlvɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELVILLE ISLAND

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Melville Island is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MELVILLE ISLAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Melville Island

Melville Island may refer to: ▪ Melville Island, in the Northern Territory ▪ Melville Island, in northern Canada ▪ Melville Island, a small island in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada ▪ Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada ▪ Melville Island, a small island near Dundas Island near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada...

Definition of Melville Island in the English dictionary

The definition of Melville Island in the dictionary is a Canadian island in the Arctic Ocean, north of Victoria Island: in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Area: 41 865 sq km. Other definition of Melville Island is an island in the Arafura Sea, off the N central coast of Australia, separated from the mainland by Clarence Strait. Area: 6216 sq km.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MELVILLE ISLAND


anvil
ˈænvɪl
Baskerville
ˈbæskəˌvɪl
Evansville
ˈɛvənzˌvɪl
Granville
ˈɡrænvɪl
Grenville
ˈɡrɛnvɪl
Huntsville
ˈhʌntsvɪl
Jacksonville
ˈdʒæksənˌvɪl
Knoxville
ˈnɒksvɪl
Louisville
ˈluːɪˌvɪl
Mandeville
ˈmændəvɪl
Melville
ˈmɛlvɪl
Nashville
ˈnæʃvɪl
Oakville
ˈəʊkvɪl
pulvil
ˈpʌlvɪl
Seville
səˈvɪl
Somerville
ˈsʌməvɪl
Townsville
ˈtaʊnzvɪl
vaudeville
ˈvəʊdəvɪl
vill
vɪl
Woodville
ˈwʊdvɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELVILLE ISLAND

Melton Mowbray
meltwater
melty
melungeon
Melville
Melville Peninsula
mem
member
Member of Congress
Member of Parliament
member of staff
Member of the European Parliament
Member of the House of Representatives

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELVILLE ISLAND

Chatham Island
Christmas Island
Coney Island
Deutschland
Friesland
Gippsland
grassland
Howland Island
island
Long Island
Norfolk Island
North Island
Pitcairn Island
Prince Edward Island
Queensland
Rhode Island
South Island
Staten Island
the South Island
Vancouver Island
Wake Island

Synonyms and antonyms of Melville Island in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Melville Island» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MELVILLE ISLAND

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Translator English - Chinese

梅尔维尔岛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Melville Island
570 millions of speakers

English

Melville Island
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेलविल द्वीप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جزيرة ميلفيل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Мелвилл Остров
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Melville Island
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মেলভিল দ্বীপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Île Melville
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pulau Melville
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Melville-Insel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メルビル島
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

멜빌 섬
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pulo Melville
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đảo Melville
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெல்வில் தீவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेलविले बेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Melville Adası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Melville Island
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Melville Wyspa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Мелвілл Острів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Melville Island
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Melville Νησί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Melville Island
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Melville Island
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Melville Island
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Melville Island

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELVILLE ISLAND»

The term «Melville Island» is normally little used and occupies the 125.720 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MELVILLE ISLAND» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELVILLE ISLAND»

Discover the use of Melville Island in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Melville Island and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tiwi Wives: A Study of the Women of Melville Island, North ...
Goodale's approach of the Tiwi people is significant in that it is from the perspective of the Tiwi woman as she changes through her life course from birth to the rituals performed after her death.
Jane C. Goodale, 1994
2
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
Swamp Jungle, Melville Island .... „ 4-5 8. — Two Kakadu Men „ 6-7 9. — Geimbio Family, Man with Six Wives . . „ 6-7 10. — Two Kakadu Women „ 6-7 11. — Group of Women of Mulluk Mulluk Tribe „ 6-7 12. — Group of Port Essington Natives ...
Baldwin Spencer, 2010
3
Reconnaissance Geology of Portions of Victoria Island and ...
Devonian fioras on Melville Island, but he is now of the opinion that the evidence for this correlation is unsatisfactory and that the plant-bearing beds of Melville Island might be of any late Paleozoic age (personal communication, 1942).
‎1947
4
The Friendly Arctic
As we proceeded south along the west coast of Melville Island we found it beautiful in a way quite different from most of the other northern lands. Banks Island, for instance, has some picturesque cliffs near its south end and also towards the ...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Mountains—Northwest Territories Melville Island (N.S.) BT Islands—Nova Scotia Melville Island (N.T.) BT Islands—Australia Melville Island (N.W.T.) USE Melville Island (N.W.T. and Nunavut) Melville Island (N.W.T. and Nunavut) UF Melville ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2007
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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: JRGS
reefs, strong currents, and sand- banks, which embarrassed its entrance, and of which I shall speak more fully in another place; but I then thought it might be rendered safer by means of buoys. 4 Melville Island is situated between the parallels ...
Royal Geographical Society, 1834
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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
reefs, strong currents, and sand-banks, which embarrassed its entrance, and of which I shall speak more fully in another place ; but I then thought it might be rendered safer by means of buoys. Melville Island is situated between the parallels ...
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), 1834
8
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
... in the view of which it was undertaken, will be fully realised. There is no fear, I trust, that it will experience the fate of that untimely abandonment which befel the two former infant establishments on the same coast ; namely, Melville Island and  ...
‎1839
9
Australian Aboriginal Religion: Fascicle Two : The ...
Photo: Maria Brandl, Snake Bay, Melville Island, 1969. Figure 55. In this case, the dead person was a woman. The coffin has been lowered into the grave. The young man directing the burial is her brother's son's son. Behind, grief- stricken ...
Ronald Murray Berndt, 1974
10
The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities
So that he could consider again the broad question of coastal settlement as well as the specific issue of whether the Melville Island garrison should be transferred to Raffles Bay, Hay provided him with all relevant reports. To underline the way ...
Pamela Statham, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELVILLE ISLAND»

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Indigenous communities celebrate first commercial woodchip …
The first trees to be harvested are on Munupi land off Shark Bay Road, near Pirlangimpi on the north of Melville Island. Media player: "Space" to ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
2
50 years of MCG memories: Maurice Rioli wins the Norm Smith Medal
... coached him at WAFL club South Fremantle in the late 1970s-early 1980s after the classy centreman had move to Perth from Melville Island. «Richmond, Jun 15»
3
Discover indigenous art and culture in the Tiwi Islands on new …
We fly to neighbouring Melville Island to visit Milikapiti community, where a buffalo calf named Shallow, so-called because he swims in kids' ... «Courier Mail, Jun 15»
4
Fishing World's July issue is out now!
Mark Williams travels to Melville Island in the NT where he tackles a bunch of great northern sportfish species on fur & feather. PLUS - Greeny ... «Fishing World, Jun 15»
5
Memorial Day ceremony honours the fallen on Deadmans Island
“If the men despairing in the prison on Melville Island right behind us or serving and dying at the guns aboard the USS Chesapeake could ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, May 15»
6
Halifax ceremony honours US prisoners of war from War of 1812
The tradition honours the nearly 200 U.S. servicemen who died while imprisoned on Melville Island on Halifax's Northwest Arm during the War ... «CTV News, May 15»
7
Missing Budget detail on northern Aus
On Melville Island, part of the Tiwi Islands just off the coast of Darwin, a $50 million deep-sea port is under construction. It's no small ... «The Land Newspaper, May 15»
8
Port Melville: AusGroup acted appropriately after diesel spilll …
Northern Territory Labor senator Nova Peris said the spill was of great concern for Melville Island's traditional owners and locals had been left ... «ABC Online, May 15»
9
Fisho Writer's Top 5 Photos
We were fishing up the back of Snake Bay on Melville Island and ... on Melville Island where we had an unbelievable few days' jack fishing. «Fishing World, May 15»
10
Diesel spill confirmed at controversial Port Melville in Tiwi Islands
The spill was confirmed the same day the Federal Environment Department investigation found the port construction on Melville Island did not ... «ABC Online, May 15»

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