Meaning

2 senses
  1. The result of multiple things being combined together; a blend.

  2. Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points.

More definitions
  • a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Your religion does not really meld with nature.

  2. In Hinduism, "moksha" is when the soul self melds with the god sea.

    ruВ индуизме "мокша" - это то, когда душа сливается с божественным морем. — Selena777

  3. "Sustainable Happiness" melds the insights of psychiatry and neuroscience with meditation and other Buddhist spiritual disciplines.

  4. And that is the “sustainable happiness” he seeks to achieve by melding Western psychotherapy and Eastern spirituality.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

The verb is probably derived: The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announ

The verb is probably derived:

The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).

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Forms

plural: melds
Singularmeld
Pluralmelds

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank:canastabasket rummy

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmind meld

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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