melanie

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Definition of melanie in English English dictionary

A female given name; rare until the latter half of the 20th century

{i} female first name

rare until the latter half of the 20th century

Related Terms

Melanie Griffith

(born 1957) famous United States movie actress (starred in "Born Yesterday")

Melanie Klein

orig. Melanie Reizes born March 30, 1882, Vienna, Austria died Sept. 22, 1960, London, Eng. Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She married at age 21 and had three children before undergoing psychoanalysis with Ferenczi Sándor in Budapest, Hung. She studied the psychoanalysis of young children, joining the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute (1921-26) and later moving to London. In works such as The Psychoanalysis of Children (1932) and Narrative of a Child Analysis (1961), she asserted that children's play was a symbolic way of controlling anxiety and that observation of free play with toys could serve as a means of determining early psychological impulses

Hyphenation

Mel·a·nie

Turkish pronunciation

melıni

Pronunciation

/ˈmelənē/ /ˈmɛləniː/

Etymology

() From Latin Melania, the name of two Roman fifth century saints, from Ancient Greek μέλας (melas, “black, dark”).