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say it: MEL-burn
melbourne is a noun meaning "a resort town in east central Florida". It is pronounced /ˈmɛlbɚn/ — MEL-burn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for melbourne come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.