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Macaulayan

Macaulayan adjective: of or relating to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), British poet, historian and Whig politician.

Adjective

Macaulayan (comparative more Macaulayan, superlative most Macaulayan)

  1. Of or relating to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), British poet, historian and Whig politician.

Forms of Macaulayan

comparativemore Macaulayan
superlativemost Macaulayan

Origin of Macaulayan

From Macaulay + -an.

Questions about Macaulayan

What does Macaulayan mean?
Macaulayan means of or relating to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), British poet, historian and Whig politician.
What part of speech is Macaulayan?
Macaulayan is an adjective.

Words near Macaulayan in the dictionary

  1. macauco
  2. macaucoes
  3. macaucos
  4. Macaulay
  5. Macaulay's children
  6. Macaulayan
  7. Macaulayesque
  8. Macaulayism
  9. macaulayite
  10. MacAuley
  11. MacAuliffe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Macaulayan (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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