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McCarthy

UK/məˈkɑː.θi/US/məˈkɑɹ.θi/

McCarthy proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

McCarthy (countable and uncountable, plural McCarthys or McCarthies)

  1. A surname from Irish.
    • The McCarthys say they did not wish to publicize the incident, but the Catholic newspaper in Maine heard about it and wrote an article.1998 October 11, Laurie Goodstein, “Miracle in Massachusetts Qualified Stein for Sainthood”, in The New York Times
    • Life is finally loose, one could say, liberated from its social constrains and sincere in its necessities, its insistence and its arrogative demands, but McCarthy also reveals the implications of life's liberation and, by the same token, unmasks any misplaced romanticisations regarding its...2019, Joe Trotta, Zlatan Filipovic, Houman Sadri, Broken Mirrors, page 1995
  2. A census-designated place in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States.

McCarthy meaning in Tamil

McCarthy in Tamil

மக்கார்த்தி

Forms of McCarthy

pluralMcCarthys
pluralMcCarthies
alternative formMc Carthy
alternative formMccarthy
alternative formMacCarthy
alternative formMac Carthy
alternative formMaccarthy
alternative formM'Carthy
alternative formMaCarthy
alternative formMacarthy
alternative formCarthy
alternative formMcCarty

Origin of McCarthy

Borrowed from Irish Mac Carthaigh (literally “son of Carthach”).

Words formed from McCarthy

Questions about McCarthy

What does McCarthy mean?
McCarthy means a surname from Irish.
What is McCarthy in Tamil?
McCarthy in Tamil is மக்கார்த்தி. See McCarthy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is McCarthy?
McCarthy is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce McCarthy?
McCarthy is pronounced /məˈkɑː.θi/ (UK).

Words near McCarthy in the dictionary

  1. McCart
  2. McCartan
  3. McCartans
  4. McCarter
  5. McCarters
  6. McCarthy
  7. McCarthy's shrew
  8. McCarthyesque
  9. McCarthyism
  10. McCarthyisms
  11. McCarthyist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: McCarthy (page history and authors); McCarthy (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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