Synonyms for melon

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mel-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛl ən

Définition of melon

Origin : late 14c., from Old French melon (13c.), from Medieval Latin melonem (nominative melo), from Latin melopeponem, a kind of pumpkin, from Greek melopepon "gourd-apple" (name for several kinds of gourds bearing sweet fruit), from melon "apple" (see malic) + pepon, a kind of gourd, probably noun use of pepon "ripe" (see pumpkin).
In Greek, melon was used in a generic way for all foreign fruits (cf. similar use of apple). The Greek plural of "melon" was used from ancient times for "a girl's breasts."

noun fruit

Example sentences :

You can't always tell by the looks of a melon what's inside it, my son.
Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

The melon capital was probably not in use after the sixth century.
Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen

You 'll send me a melon, at least, of my own raising, won't you?
Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever

He had been reading an article on Nestorianism when the melon was brought in.
Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton

There she stopped, and, turning, extended her hands for the melon.
Extract from : « Hooking Watermelons » by Edward Bellamy

It was littered with rotting straw and plum stones and melon seeds.
Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland

Fishin' out the note I'd written, I slits the melon with my knife and jabs it in.
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

He is the happiest of men just now, for he has the management of a melon bed—a melon bed!
Extract from : « Our Village » by Mary Russell Mitford

As soon as the eldest son was out of sight of the house he opened his melon.
Extract from : « Fairy Tales from Brazil » by Elsie Spicer Eells

Found two or three slices of melon with a biscuit to be a good lunch.
Extract from : « A Journey to America in 1834 » by Robert Heywood

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