MELEE
What does "MELEE" mean?
A confused, disorganized fight or struggle involving many people at close quarters.
Meanings
- A chaotic hand-to-hand fight among a crowd of people, with no clear order. A bench-clearing melee broke out after the late hit.
- A confused, jostling mass or muddle of people or things. We lost each other in the melee at the station exit.
Did you know?
- A 'melee', a 'medley', and to 'meddle' are linguistic siblings: all three trace back to the Latin 'misculare', 'to mix' - a brawl, a song, and a busybody, all just different kinds of mixing.
Word origin
From French 'mêlée', from 'mêler' (to mix), from Latin 'misculare' (to mix); the same root gives English 'meddle' and 'medley'.
Remember it
MELEE comes from French 'mêler', to mix - picture a tangled E-E knot of bodies all mixed together.
A little poem
No front line, no plan-
just elbows, dust, and shouting,
each man his own war.
haiku
Wordplay
- The chaos and the song accused each other of starting trouble. Turns out melee and medley were related all along - both just a way of mixing things up.
What it teaches
In a melee everyone fights everyone and no one wins; chaos rewards the side that keeps a line.
Quick facts
What does MELEE mean?
A confused, disorganized fight or struggle involving many people at close quarters.
Is MELEE a valid word?
Yes — MELEE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MELEE?
MELEE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does MELEE come from?
From French 'mêlée', from 'mêler' (to mix), from Latin 'misculare' (to mix); the same root gives English 'meddle' and 'medley'.
What can MELEE teach us?
In a melee everyone fights everyone and no one wins; chaos rewards the side that keeps a line.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.