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Médée: Medea
Méert: a surname from Dutch
Mégane: a female given name, equivalent to English Megan
Méganticois: Meganticois (resident of Lac-Megantic, Quebec)
Mégara: Megara (the daughter of Creon and wife of Heracles)
Mégare: Megara (a city in Attica, Greece); Megara (a district of Carthage, near present-day La Marsa, Tunisia)
Méhaignerie: a surname
Méheut: a surname from Breton
Mékinac: a regional county municipality of Mauricie, Quebec, Canada
Mélanchlènes: Melanchlaeni (a Scythian tribe which dwelt in Pontus)
Mélanie: a female given name, equivalent to English Melanie
Mélanippe: a male given name, equivalent to English Melanippus
Mélanippe: a female given name, equivalent to English Melanippe
Mélanésie: Melanesia (a continental region of Oceania, consisting of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji)
Mélanésien: Melanesian
Mélenchon: a surname
Mélissa: a female given name, equivalent to English Melissa
Mélite: Melita; synonym of Malte (island)
Mélitène: Melitene (former name of Malatya: a city in Turkey)
Méliès: a surname
Mélodie: a female given name, equivalent to English Melody
Mélusine: Melusine
Mélèce: a male given name
Ménandre: Menander
Ménard: a surname, Menard
Ménilmontant: a neighborhood of Paris, France
Ménière: a surname
Ménédème: Menedemus
Ménétréol-sur-Sauldre: a village and commune of Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Mérens-les-Vals: Mérens-les-Vals (a village in Ariège department, Occitania, France)
Mérida: the city Mérida in Spain's western region Estremadura, in Badajoz province; Latin American cities named Mérida after the above:
Mérignac: Mérignac (a town in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
Mérigon: Mérigon (a village in Ariège department, France)
Mérinide: Marinid
Mérovinge: Meroving, Merovingian
Mérovingien: Merovingian
Mérovée: Merovech (a semi-legendary 5th-century Frankish leader regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the Merovings (the members of the Merovingian dynasty))
Mésie: Moesia
Mésoamérique: Mesoamerica (an ethnological region in North America). A cultural region of pre-Columbian southern Mexico and neighbouring Central America
Mésolithique: Mesolithic (Mesolithic period)
Mésopotamie: Mesopotamia (a geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man); Mesopotamia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 116 to 117 AD and again from 198 to 637 AD)
Mésopotamien: Mesopotamian
Mésozoïque: Mesozoic period
Métis: Metis
Métis: a Metis, a member of an ethnic group of mixed heritage, one of the three Canadian Aboriginal peoples
Mödlareuth: Mödlareuth (a village in Bavaria and Thuringia, Germany)
Mʳ: alternative spelling of Mʳ: abbreviation of monsieur
Mʳˢ: alternative spelling of Mʳˢ: plural of Mʳ
Mᵐᵉ: alternative spelling of Mᵐᵉ: abbreviation of madame
Mᵐᵉˢ: alternative spelling of Mᵐᵉˢ: plural of Mᵐᵉ
N: abbreviation of nord
N'Djamena: N'Djamena (the capital city of Chad)
N. D.: initialism of Notre Dame
N. D. L. R.: alternative spelling of N.D.L.R.
N.-B.: Nouveau-Brunswick, a province of Canada
N.-D.: initialism of Notre-Dame
N.-É.: abbreviation of Nouvelle-Écosse (a province in Canada)
N.B.: n.b., N.B.
N.D.L.R.: initialism of note de la rédaction (—Ed., —Editor; editor's note;)
N.d.T.: initialism of note du traducteur (—Translator; translator's note;)