"Melcher" meaning in English

See Melcher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Melchers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Melcher (plural Melchers)
  1. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Melcher-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
  2. A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa, United States. Categories (place): Places in Iowa, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Melcher-en-name-XpiDSaLi Categories (other): Former settlements, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Melcher-Dallas

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Melcher-Dallas"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Melchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Melcher (plural Melchers)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Melcher-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Former settlements",
          "orig": "en:Former settlements",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Iowa, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in Iowa, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa, United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-Melcher-en-name-XpiDSaLi",
      "links": [
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ],
        [
          "Melcher-Dallas",
          "Melcher-Dallas#English"
        ],
        [
          "Marion County",
          "Marion County#English"
        ],
        [
          "Iowa",
          "Iowa#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Melcher"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Melcher-Dallas"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Melchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Melcher (plural Melchers)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Former settlements",
        "en:Places in Iowa, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa, United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ],
        [
          "Melcher-Dallas",
          "Melcher-Dallas#English"
        ],
        [
          "Marion County",
          "Marion County#English"
        ],
        [
          "Iowa",
          "Iowa#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Melcher"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Melcher meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.