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macadams

macadams is the plural of macadam.

macadams is the third-person singular simple present indicative of macadam.

Meaning of macadam

Noun

macadam (countable and uncountable, plural macadams)

  1. (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
    • This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 304
  2. (US, countable, dated) Any road or street.

See all 4 meanings of macadam

Proper noun capitalized: MacAdams

MacAdams

  1. A surname.

Forms of macadams

alternative formMcAdams

Questions about macadams

What does macadams mean?
Macadams means a surname.
What is macadams the plural of?
Macadams is the plural of macadam.
What part of speech is macadams?
Macadams is a proper noun.

Words near macadams in the dictionary

  1. macadamizers
  2. macadamizes
  3. macadamizing
  4. macadammed
  5. macadamming
  6. macadams
  7. Macaddict
  8. Macaddicts
  9. MacAfee
  10. MacAfees
  11. macafouchette

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Adapted from Wiktionary: macadams (page history and authors); MacAdams (page history and authors); macadam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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