Melchior
See also: melchior
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛl.ki.ɔː(ɹ)/
Noun
Melchior (plural Melchiors)
Proper noun
Melchior
- One of the Magi according to medieval Christian legend.
- (rather rare) A male given name.
- 1991 Angela Carter, Wise Children, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 16:
- So twin boys, our fathers, were born in the USA. Melchior and Peregrine. What names, eh? What delusions of grandeur went into the naming of them? If you shorten them to 'Mel' and 'Perry', they've got a democratically twentieth-century and transatlantic ring to them.
- 1991 Angela Carter, Wise Children, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 16:
German
Proper noun
Melchior
- A male given name, cognate to English Melchior.
- A surname derived from the given name.
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