Macedonian

/mæsəˈdəʊniən//mæsəˈdoʊniən/

Macedonian adjective: of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.

Adjective (1)

Macedonian (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
- Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305
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Macedonic

Noun (1)

Macedonian (countable and uncountable, plural Macedonians)

(countable) A person from Macedonia (in any sense).
(uncountable) A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.
(historical) The tongue of the Ancient Macedonians, spoken in Macedon during the 1st millennium BC. (see Ancient Macedonian)
(uncountable) The Greek dialect in Macedonia, region of Greece.

Adjective (2)

Macedonian (not comparable)

(historical) Pertaining to the Macedonian heresy or to Macedonian heretics.

Noun (2)

Macedonian (plural Macedonians)

(historical) A member of an anti–Nicene Creed sect founded by the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople, which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries.
- I do therfoꝛe ſo diligently admoniſh you of this thing, becauſe it is daungerous leſt among ſo many errours, and in ſo great varietie and confuſion of ſectes, there might ſtep vp ſome Arrians, Eunomians, Macedonians, and ſuch other heretikes, that might doe harme to the Churches with their...1575, Martin Luther, translated by “certaine godly learned men”, A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians, […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […]...
- With these data at our disposal we are in a position to sketch the teaching of the Macedonians to a great extent from their own writings,[…]. 3. Doctrine of the Macedonians in the same period.—The leading doctrine of the Macedonians is found in the thesis characterized by their opponents as...1915, Friedrich Loofs, “Macedonianism”, in James Hastings, John A[lexander] Selbie, Louis H[erbert] Gray, editors, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, volume VIII (Life and Death–Mulla), Edinburgh...

Macedonian meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

Macedonian in Hindi

of Macedonia or its people or language: मेसिडोनियन mesiḍoniyan

Macedonian in Urdu

of Macedonia or its people or language: مقدونیائی maqdūniyāī

Macedonian in Bengali

of Macedonia or its people or language: ম্যাসেডোনীয় mêśeḍōniẏo

Macedonian in Arabic

of Macedonia or its people or language: مَقْدُونِيّ maqdūniyy
person from Macedonia: مَقْدُونِيّ maqdūniyy, maqdōniyy, مَقْدُونِيَّة maqdūniyya, maqdōniyya
Slavic language of Macedonia: مَقْدُونِيَّة maqdūniyya

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Macedonian in Malay: Makedonia
Macedonian in Persian: مقدونی maqduni, مکادونی makâduni
Macedonian in Thai: มาซิโดเนีย maa-sí-doo-niia
Macedonian in Vietnamese: Ma-xê-đô-ni-a
Macedonian in Myanmar: မက်စီဒိုးနီးယား makcidui:ni:ya:

Examples of Macedonian in a sentence

With these data at our disposal we are in a position to sketch the teaching of the Macedonians to a great extent from their own writings,[…]. 3.1915, Friedrich Loofs, “Macedonianism”, in James Hastings, John A[lexander] Selbie, Louis H[erbert] Gray, editors, Encyclopædia of Religion...
Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.1996, Maurice Wiles, “[The End of Arianism] Gothic Christianity”, in Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries, Oxford, Oxon...

Synonyms of Macedonian

Macedonic

Forms of Macedonian

Adjective
alternative form	Makedonian
Noun
plural	Macedonians

Origin of Macedonian

From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.

From Middle English Macedonyan, from Latin Macedoniānus, from Macedonius + -ānus, after the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople.

Words formed from Macedonian

Phrases with Macedonian

Words that rhyme with Macedonian

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Questions about Macedonian

What does Macedonian mean?: Macedonian means of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
What is Macedonian in Hindi?: Macedonian in Hindi is मेसिडोनियन (mesiḍoniyan). See Macedonian meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Macedonian in a sentence?: With these data at our disposal we are in a position to sketch the teaching of the Macedonians to a great extent from their own writings,[…]. 3.
What part of speech is Macedonian?: Macedonian can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Macedonian?: Macedonian is pronounced /mæsəˈdəʊniən/ (UK).

Words near Macedonian in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: Macedonian (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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