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Maycomb

/ˈmeɪkəm/

Maycomb proper noun: the fictional small Alabama town that serves as the setting of Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as the 1962 film of the same name that is based on this novel.

Proper noun

Maycomb

  1. The fictional small Alabama town that serves as the setting of Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as the 1962 film of the same name that is based on this novel.
    • Bryan K. Fair (University of Alabama) published Using Parrots to Kill Mockingbirds: Yet Another Racial Prosecution and Wrongful Conviction in Maycomb, 45 Alabama Law Review 403 (1994);1989, Association of American Law Schools. Section on Minority Groups, Newsletter, page lxii
    • In the excerpt from Snapple's novels given here, the sequence of spaces juxtaposes middle-class ladies condemning the squalid lives of Africans, to the squalid lives of White trash in Maycomb, to the condemning values of Mr. Daley about his hillbillies, to Calpurnia's option that "Yo're no better...1999, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Kip Strasma, Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts, →ISBN, page 86

Questions about Maycomb

What does Maycomb mean?
Maycomb means the fictional small Alabama town that serves as the setting of Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as the 1962 film of the same name that is based on this novel.
What part of speech is Maycomb?
Maycomb is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Maycomb?
Maycomb is pronounced /ˈmeɪkəm/.

Words near Maycomb in the dictionary

  1. maybush
  2. maybushes
  3. Maycember
  4. Maycock
  5. Maycocks
  6. Maycomb
  7. Mayda
  8. mayday
  9. maydays
  10. mayden
  11. Maydena

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