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Mackay

Mackay proper noun: a surname, alternative form of MacKay.

Proper noun (1)

Mackay

  1. A surname, alternative form of MacKay.
  2. A city and local government area (Mackay Region) in northern Queensland, Australia.
    • The coastal port cities, Mackay and Rockhampton, are 100 miles or more from Queensland's coal mines.2011 January 12, Joel Kirkland, “Australia's Record Rains Squeeze World Coal Supplies as Scientists Study Climate Pattern”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025
  3. A town in Custer County, Idaho, United States.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: MacKay

MacKay (countable and uncountable, plural MacKays)

  1. A surname.
  2. A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.

Forms of Mackay

pluralMacKays
alternative formMackay

Origin of Mackay

See McKay.

Variant of McKay.

Words that rhyme with Mackay

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Mackay

What does Mackay mean?
Mackay means a surname, alternative form of MacKay.
What part of speech is Mackay?
Mackay is a proper noun.

Words near Mackay in the dictionary

  1. Mackall
  2. Mackalls
  3. mackaluck
  4. Mackauer
  5. Mackauers
  6. Mackay
  7. mackayite
  8. mackayites
  9. MacKayla
  10. MacKays
  11. macked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mackay (page history and authors); MacKay (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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