MACEDONIANS

"MACEDONIANS" is a plural of: macedonian.

Date "MACEDONIANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Macedonians A religious sect, so named from Macedonius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the fourth century. They denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost, and that the essence of the Son is the same in kind with that of the Father. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: MACEDONIANS

English words defined with "MACEDONIANS": battle of Pydna ♦ Pydna. (references)

Author	Quotation
Plutarch	These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Macedonia	On several occasions, the NLA detained or kidnaped persons, particularly ethnic Macedonians, at illegal roadblocks, particularly in towns around Tetovo. (references)
	Turkey	More arrived after renewed fighting in June and July, and approximately 3,000 to 4,000 Macedonians were in the country as of the end of August, living with friend, or relatives. (references)
	Macedonia	There were reports that the NLA charged ethnic Albanians fleeing the town of Slupcane a "departure tax." Approximately 170,000 persons were displaced from their homes as a result of the conflict; approximately 35,000 were ethnic Macedonians, and most of the remainder were ethnic Albanians. (references)
Economic History	Albania	Ethnic groups: Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, and others 2% (Vlachs, Romas, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Egyptians and Bulgarians). (references)
Human Rights	Macedonia	Threatening violence, the NLA forced thousands of ethnic Macedonians from their homes in northern and western Macedonia. (references)
	Macedonia	It receives and responds to a disproportionate number of requests from ethnic Macedonians, as compared with those from minorities. (references)
Minorities	Albania	There also are small groups of Macedonians, Montenegrins, Vlachs, Roma, and Egyptians. (references)
	Bulgaria	Several thousand persons, mainly in the southwest, identify themselves as ethnic Macedonians, most for historical and geographic reasons. (references)
	Switzerland	The newspaper, which has an editorial office in Zurich, allegedly used racist and inflammatory language when referring to Serbs in Kosovo and Macedonians in Macedonia. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"MACEDONIANS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "MACEDONIANS" 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)	66.67%	28	65,706
Noun (plural)	33.33%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "MACEDONIANS": Greco-macedonians.
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Misspellings
	"MACEDONIANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: macedoniensis, Makedones. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: dominances.
	-2 letters: canonised, comedians, demoniacs, dominance, mandiocas.
	-3 letters: adenomas, amandine, amidones, amnesiac, camisade, camisado, canonise, codeinas, comedian, condemns, daemonic, daimones, demoniac, demonian, diocesan, madonnas, maenadic, mandioca, maniocas, monacids, monecian, nonacids.
	-4 letters: acedias, acinose, acnodes, adenoma, aeonian, amidase, amidone, amnesia, amnesic, amnions, anadems, anaemic, ancones, anemias, anomies, anosmia, anosmic, caeomas, caimans, camions, candies, canines, cinemas.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: nonacademics.
	+3 letters: decontaminates, documentarians.
	+4 letters: adenocarcinomas, decontaminators.
	+5 letters: decontaminations, scandalmongering.
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