melange

Meaning

1. A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
2. A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
3. A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

Synonyms

mixture

hodgepodge

farrago

ragbag

hotchpotch

mishmash

intermixture

jumble

gallimaufry

medley

mingle-mangle

admixture

mix

oddments

odds and ends

omnium-gatherum

hotpot

miscellany

potpourri

pot-pourri

premix

set

shuffle

sundries

mixtite

chaotic melange

melange accumulation

contaminated rocks

aggregate

aggregation

amalgam

assemblage

assortment

blend

catchall

catch-all

collection

compound

concoction

confusion

hash

#️⃣

kind

mash

miscellanea

Pronounced as (IPA)

/məˈlɑnʒ/

Etymology

From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.