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melrose

melrose noun: honey of roses, a mixture formerly used in gargles and lotions.

Noun

melrose (uncountable)

  1. honey of roses, a mixture formerly used in gargles and lotions

Proper noun capitalized: Melrose

Melrose (countable and uncountable, plural Melroses)

  1. A small town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5434).
  2. A small town in South Australia.
  3. A rural community of the City of Devonport and Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
  4. A suburb of Wellington, Wellington region, New Zealand.
  5. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  6. A community in Hastings County, Ontario.
  7. A community in Middlesex County, Ontario.
  8. A small community in Nova Scotia.
  9. A settlement in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
  10. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  11. A neighbourhood of Oakland, California.
  12. A village in East Windsor, Connecticut.
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  1. An unincorporated community in Alachua County, Bradford County, Clay County and Putnam County, Florida.
  2. A small community in Monroe County, Iowa.
  3. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
  4. An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland.
  5. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
    • Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025
  6. A city in Stearns County, Minnesota.
  7. A neighbourhood of Sayreville borough, New Jersey.
  8. A village in Curry County, New Mexico.
  9. A hamlet in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York.
  10. A neighbourhood of the Bronx, New York City.
  11. A village in Paulding County, Ohio.
  12. A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon.
  13. A village and town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
  14. A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

melrose meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

melrose in Hindi

मेलरोज़, मेलरोज

melrose in Tamil

மெல்ரோஸ்

melrose in Marathi

मेलरोझ, मेलरोज, मेल्रोझ

melrose in Urdu

میلروز, میلروس
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melrose in Bengali
মেলরোজ
melrose in Malayalam
മെൽറോസ്
melrose in Kannada
ಮೆಲ್ರೋಸ್
melrose in Punjabi
ਮੇਲਰੋਜ਼
melrose in Gujarati
મેલરોઝ, મેલ્રોઝ, મ૆લરોઝ
melrose in Odia
ମେଲ୍ରୋସ୍, ମେଲରୋଜ୍, ମେଲରୋଜ
melrose in Nepali
मेलरोज, मेलरोज़

Forms of melrose

pluralMelroses

Origin of melrose

From Scottish Gaelic maol (“bare, barren”) + ros (“promontory, headland”).

Words formed from melrose

Questions about melrose

What does melrose mean?
Melrose means honey of roses, a mixture formerly used in gargles and lotions.
What is melrose in Hindi?
Melrose in Hindi is मेलरोज़, मेलरोज. See Melrose meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is melrose?
Melrose can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near melrose in the dictionary

  1. melphidippids
  2. Melpomene
  3. Melpomenean
  4. melpomenish
  5. Melqart
  6. melrose
  7. Melrose Park
  8. Melroses
  9. mels
  10. Melsetter
  11. Melson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melrose (page history and authors); Melrose (page history and authors); melrose (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melrose (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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