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Melia

Definition: Melia

Melia

Noun

1. Type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Melia" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an ash tree", "work".

Date "Melia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Synonym: Melia

Synonym: genus Melia (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Melia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Greek mythology, Melia was a nymph, daughter of Oceanus. By Inachus, she became the mother of Phoroneus and Aegealeus or Phegeus. In other stories, she was the mother of Amycus by Poseidon.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Melia."

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Crosswords: Melia

English words defined with "Melia": arishth, Azadirachta indicagenus Meliamargosa, Melia Azadirachta, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Meliaceousneem, neem tree, nim tree. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Melia": ANTHURIUM ACUTANGULUM, ANTIDIARRHETIC, ANTIRHEUMATICFENCE POSTS HEDEOMA AFF PULEGIOIDES, HEDYOSMUM MEXICANUMPISCICIDESEEDS POISONOUSVERNONIA BRACTEATA, VERNONIA BRASILILANA, VERNONIA CANESCENS, VERNONIA CINEREA. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Melia

DomainTitle

References

  • Sol Melia S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Melia Inversiones Americanas: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • MELIA INVERSIONES AMERICANAS: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • SOL MELIA, S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Melia

"Melia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Melia" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2569,787

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Melia

The following table summarizes the usage of "Melia" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MeliaFirst name Female1,0003,621
MeliaLast name1,00016,825
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Melia

"Melia" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an ash tree", "work".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Melia."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
AmaliaFemaleEnglishN/A
AmeliaFemaleEnglishAmalia
MeliaFemaleEnglishAmelia
AmélieFemaleFrenchAmelia
AmaliaFemaleGermanN/A
MeliaFemaleGreek MythologyN/A
AméliaFemalePortugueseAmelia
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Melia

CountryName
Spain

Melia Inversiones Americanas

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Melia

Expressions using "Melia": genus Melia Melia Azadirachta Melia azedarach Melia azederach Melia sempervirens. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Melia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  melia hotel

237

  melia playa conchal

36

  melia caribe tropical

226

  hoteles melia

35

  melia

199

  gran melia

34

  melia turquesa

186

  melia cayo coco

30

  gran melia cancun

154

  melia caribe tropical punta cana

30

  sol melia

128

  melia caribe punta cana

27

  melia san lucas

119

  melia tropical

25

  melia puerto vallarta

119

  hotel melia turquesa

24

  melia cabo real

111

  melia white house

24

  melia milano

106

  melia caribe tropical resort

21

  cozumel melia

97

  melia punta cana

21

  melia caribe

94

  grand melia cancun

20

  melia cancun

87

  melia cabo san lucas

20

  melia los cabos

72

  melia bali

18

  melia turquesa cancun

61

  melia barcelona

17

  melia cayo guillermo

58

  gran melia hotel cancun

17

  melia azul ixtapa

53

  melia azul

17

  melia resort

43

  melia white house hotel

16

  hotel sol melia

42

  hotel melia cancun

15

  melia varadero

41

  melia castilla

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Melia

Language Translations for "Melia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(Melia japonica). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eliamay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Melia

Derivations

Words ending with "Melia": camelia. (additional references)

Words containing "Melia": bromeliad, bromeliads, camelias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Melia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: email, maile.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m"

-1 letter: alme, amie, ilea, lame, lima, lime, mail, male, meal, mile.

-2 letters: ail, aim, ale, ami, elm, lam, lea, lei, lie, mae, mel, mil.

-3 letters: ae, ai, al, am, el, em, la, li, ma, me, mi.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m"
 

+1 letter: emails, hiemal, impale, lambie, lamiae, mailed, mailer, mailes, malice, maline, mallei, mealie, medial, menial, mesial, milage, remail, samiel.

 

+2 letters: ailment, aimless, alembic, aliment, alumine, amiable, armlike, balmier, beamily, bimetal, camelia, cembali, claimed, claimer, climate, decimal, declaim, dilemma, emailed, exclaim, flamier, geminal, gremial, hemiola, imblaze, impaled, impaler, impales, impanel, impearl, implead, inflame, lambier, lambies, laminae, lehayim, lempira, limbate, limeade, lineman, loamier, mailers, mailmen, malaise, malefic, malices, malines, malmier, maltier, manille, maniple, manlier, manlike, maplike, marlier, marline, marlite, mealier, mealies, meatily, medials, medical, melanic, melanin, melisma, melodia, menials, metical, miauled, micella, milages, mileage, millage, minable, mineral, miracle, misdeal, mislead, mixable, mycelia, palmier, ramilie, realism, reclaim, remails, samiels, seismal, seminal, timbale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Melia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 6C 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "Melia"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "Melia"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Melia