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Definition: Macedon |
MacedonNoun1. The ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Macedon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Synonyms: MacedonSynonyms: Macedonia (n), Makedonija (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Argead Dynasty
Antipatrid Dynasty
Antigonid Dynasty
After Perseus's defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, Macedon was divided into four republics under Roman domination. In 150 BC, a man named Andriscus claimed to be the son of Perseus, and claimed the throne of Macedon as Philip VI. This led to the Fourth Macedonian War, in which Andriscus was defeated by the Romans, and Macedon annexed to Rome.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kings of Macedon."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissimilarity | Nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale "; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Macedon |
| English words defined with "Macedon": Alexander, Alexander the Great ♦ battle of Cynoscephalae ♦ Chaeronea, Cynoscephalae ♦ Impediment in speech ♦ Macedonian ♦ Philip II, Philippize. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Macedon": 14502 ♦ Aratos ♦ Fluellen ♦ Macedon is not Worthy of Thee, Menecrates ♦ Phocensian Despair ♦ Sacred War, Silver Weapon. (references) |
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| "Macedon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Macedon" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 42 | 52,864 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Macedon, NY (village, FIPS 44149) |
Expression using "Macedon": as different as Macedon and Monmouth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
macedon ny | 69 |
macedon | 27 |
philip of macedon | 9 |
macedon new york | 7 |
macedon ford | 5 |
macedon palmyra school | 4 |
palmyra macedon | 3 |
macedon phillip | 2 |
macedon mount | 2 |
macedon mt | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "macedon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | acedonmay.(various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Macedon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maaseudun, Macaldon, Macbeoden, Maceda, Macedos, Macevoy, Machevo, Macindoe, Macivor, Majedul, Makedonci, Makweto, Mayeedul, Mccudden, Mcildoon, Micheson, Taceddin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: acnode, canoed, comade, daemon, deacon, moaned. | |
-2 letters: acned, admen, amend, anode, cameo, caned, canoe, coden, comae, coned, dance, demon, maced, macon, maned, menad, monad, monde, named, nomad, ocean. | |
-3 letters: aced, acme, acne, aeon, amen, cade, came, cane, coda, code, coed, coma, come, cone, dace, dame, damn, dean, deco, demo, dome, dona, done, mace, made, mane, mano, mead, mean, mend, meno, moan, mode, name, nema, node, noma, nome, odea, omen, once. | |
-4 letters: ace, ado, and, ane, cad, cam, can, cod, con, dam, den, doc, doe, dom, don, end, eon, mac, mad, mae, man, med, men, moa, moc, mod, mon, nae, nam, nod, nom, oca, ode, one. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, am, an, de, do, ed, em, en, ma, me, mo, na, ne, no, od, oe, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: comedian, daemonic, demoniac, romanced. | |
+2 letters: cacodemon, comanaged, comedians, commanded, commander, companied, compendia, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, macedoine, moonfaced. | |
+3 letters: androecium, cacodemons, championed, coenamored, commandeer, commanders, commandery, commandoes, complained, coromandel, decimation, demoniacal, documental, dominances, dormancies, macedoines, medication, mendacious, mordancies, nematocide, nonmedical. | |
+4 letters: accompanied, aerodynamic, cacodemonic, commandable, commandeers, commandment, commendable, commendably, commentated, companioned, compensated, condemnable, condimental, consummated, coromandels, countermand, decimations, declamation, demarcation, demonically, documentary, encompassed, endocardium, endoplasmic, gonadectomy, hemodynamic, malediction, medications, nematocidal, nematocides, nonacademic, seminomadic. | |
+5 letters: adrenochrome, aerodynamics, aeromedicine, anecdotalism, appendectomy, backwoodsmen, commandeered, commanderies, commandments, commendation, commendatory, communalized, communicated, compoundable, condemnation, condemnatory, contaminated, contemplated, countermands, decalcomania, declamations, decompensate, demarcations, demoniacally, documentable, dominatrices, dopaminergic, dynamometric, hemodynamics, hydromancies, indomethacin, malcontented, maledictions, mendaciously, micromanaged, miscaptioned, miseducation, nicotinamide, nonacademics, oleandomycin, predominance, predominancy, rhabdomancer, romanticised, romanticized, unaccustomed, undemocratic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 65 64 6F 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. . -.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c e d o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0065 0064 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47676971708180 |
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