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Macdonald

/məkˈdɒnəld/US/məkˈdɑnəld/

Macdonald proper noun: a surname, an alternative form of MacDonald.

Proper noun (1)

Macdonald (plural Macdonalds)

  1. A surname, an alternative form of MacDonald.
  2. A community in the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.
  3. A rural municipality south-west of Winnipeg, Manitoba, named after John A. Macdonald; in full, the Rural Municipality of Macdonald.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: MacDonald

MacDonald

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic common in Scotland.
    • Other groups have different messages: the National Policy Institute, fronted by Richard Spencer and designed to “elevate the consciousness of whites”; the Occidental Quarterly, run by CMS member Kevin MacDonald and presenting itself as a scholarly journal; American Third Position, later rebranded...2022 May 20, Elle Reeve, “How White ‘replacement theory’ evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide”, in CNN
  2. An unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.

Forms of Macdonald

pluralMacdonalds
alternative formMac Donald
alternative formMacdonald
alternative formMacDonnell
alternative formMacdonnell
alternative formMcDonald
alternative formMc Donald
alternative formMcdonald
alternative formMcDonnell
alternative formM'Donald
alternative formM'donald
alternative formMDonald
alternative formMdonald
alternative formMaDonald
alternative formMadonald
alternative formDonald

Origin of Macdonald

A spelling variant of MacDonald.

From Scottish Gaelic Mac Dhòmhnaill, equivalent to "son of Donald".

Words formed from Macdonald

Phrases with Macdonald

Words that rhyme with Macdonald

Questions about Macdonald

What does Macdonald mean?
Macdonald means a surname, an alternative form of MacDonald.
What part of speech is Macdonald?
Macdonald is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Macdonald?
Macdonald is pronounced /məkˈdɒnəld/ (UK).

Words near Macdonald in the dictionary

  1. MacCormick's skua
  2. Maccy D's
  3. MacDermot
  4. MacDiarmidian
  5. Macdoel
  6. Macdonald
  7. Macdonald polynomial
  8. Macdonald polynomials
  9. Macdonald triad
  10. Macdonaldian
  11. MacDonaldism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Macdonald (page history and authors); MacDonald (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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