MACDONALD

Date "MACDONALD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Specialty Definition: MACDONALD

Domain	Definition
Literature	Macdonald Lord Macdonald's breed. Parasites. Lord Macdonald (son of the Lord of the Isles) once made a raid on the mainland. He and his followers, with other plunder, fell on the clothes of the enemy, and stripping off their own rags, donned the smartest and best they could lay hands on, with the result of being overrun with parasites. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: MacDonald

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Clan MacDonald (motto: Per Mare Per Terras) is split into several branches including MacDonald of the Isles, MacDonald of Clanranald, MacDonald of Sleat, MacDonald of Keppoch, MacDonald of Ardnamurchan and MacDonald of Glengarry.

In 1692, the Jacobite MacDonalds were killed in the Massacre of Glencoe.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MacDonald."

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Crosswords: MACDONALD

English words defined with "MACDONALD": unintentional, unwilled. (references)

Specialty definitions using "MACDONALD": Prolog-Linda. (references)

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Modern Usage: MACDONALD

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Old MacDonald Had a Farm (1946)
Song Titles	Old MacDonald Had A Band (performing artist: Raffi)
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Commercial Usage: MACDONALD

Domain	Title
References	Macdonald Hotels Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	George MacDonald Original Works: Series VII: (Set of 5) Heather & Snow (Far Above Rubies - a duplex), Weighed & Wanting, Salted with Fire, A Dish of Orts, England's Antiphon (reference) At Sea and by Land: The Reminiscences of William Balfour MacDonald (reference) Burn to billabong : Macdonald clansfolk in Australia, 1788-1988 (reference) De la colonne-- dans l'art contemporain : Normand Biron, Paul Faucher, Serge Mercier, Pierre Verrier, Pierre Ayot, Laurent Bouchard, Linda Covit, André Fournelle, Denise Giguere, Michel Labbé, Murray Macdonald : [exposition (reference) Great Stories of the American West: Stories by John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, Marcia Muller, John D. MacDonald and Many Others (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Fun Songs for Kids: Old MacDonald Had a Farm (reference) 25 Fun Songs For Kids - Old MacDonald Had a Farm (reference) Voice of Firestone - Jeanette MacDonald in Performance: Princess of Opera & Operetta (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Image Slideshow: MACDONALD

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Photo Album: MACDONALD

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Dr. George Baehr] / Pirie MacDonald, Photographer-of-Men, New York. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Alexander Lambert] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Pirie MacDonald, Photographer of Men..
	Ezra Winter, mural painter, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / Pirie MacDonald, photographer of men, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.		Taylor, Myron C. (1936), lawyer, banker, diplomat] / Pirie MacDonald, photographer-of-men, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Edmund C. Stedman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Pirie MacDonald, photographer of men, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.		Owen Wister, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right] / Pirie MacDonald, photographer of men, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Ridgely Torrence, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Pirie MacDonald, photographer of men, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.		MacDonald monument, Montreal. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Epstein, Jacob, Mr., sculpture of Ramsay MacDonald. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Open February till May / / Herbert Mcnair ; Marg't Macdonald ; Frances Macdonald. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Sounds Captioned with "MACDONALD".

Play	Caption
	Very Michael MacDonald sounding tune from the mid-1980's.
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Familiar Quotations: MACDONALD

Author	Quotation
G. Macdonald	Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.
	To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.
	Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George Macdonald	The principal part of faith is patience.
	Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
	Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
	Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
	How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
Sir John A. Macdonald	Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
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Non-Fiction Usage: MACDONALD

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Osterholm MT, MacDonald KL, White KE, et al. An outbreak of a newly recognized chronic diarrhea syndrome associated with raw milk consumption. (references)
		MacDonald KL, Eidson M, Strohmeyer C, et al. A multistate outbreak of gastrointestinal illness caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in imported semisoft cheese. (references)
Human Rights	Guatemala	There were credible allegations that Alvarado MacDonald used his financial and political power to influence the handling of the case. (references)
	Guatemala	In a separate case, the SGT reviewed complaints against Judge Marco Antonio Posadas in conjunction with his investigation of the bank fraud that bankrupted the twin Metropolitan and Promoter Banks belonging to the President's campaign financier, Francisco Alvarado MacDonald. (references)
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Usage Frequency: MACDONALD

"MACDONALD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "MACDONALD" is used about 1,002 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)	99.7%	999	7,365
Noun (common)	0.2%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	0.1%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,002	N/A

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Name Usage Frequency: MACDONALD

The following table summarizes the usage of "MACDONALD" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Macdonald	Last name	15,000	821
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: MACDONALD

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Macdonald Hotels Plc
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Expression: MACDONALD

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "MACDONALD": Macdonald-bravo, Macdonald-hall, Macdonald-ross, Macdonald-the, Macdonald-wright.
	Ending with "MACDONALD": Watson-macdonald.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MACDONALD

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
macdonald	203	hatch macdonald mott	20
macdonald softchoice	101	house macdonald ronald	20
john macdonald	91	ann marie macdonald	19
jeanette macdonald	83	richard macdonald	18
norm macdonald	80	hotel macdonald edmonton	18
sir john a macdonald	79	andy macdonald	17
kelly macdonald	78	james macdonald	17
hotel macdonald	70	macdonald restaurant	16
stewart macdonald	54	fairmont hotel macdonald	16
jeffrey macdonald	47	ian macdonald	15
george macdonald	45	macdonald realtor	15
michael macdonald	36	macdonald mott	14
old macdonald	28	george macdonald fraser	14
macdonald realty	28	dettwiler macdonald	14
macdonald john d	26	sun city macdonald ranch	13
andrew macdonald	25	ross macdonald	13
old macdonald had a farm	22	douglas macdonald	12
blanche macdonald	21	macdonald ronald	12
clan macdonald	21	jane macdonald	12
betty macdonald	21	heather macdonald	11
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Misspellings: MACDONALD

Misspellings
	"MACDONALD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macconnal, Macdoland, Macdonaid, Macdonaldite, Macdondald, Macdowal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MACDONALD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-l-m-n-o"
	-2 letters: calando, mandola, monadal.
	-3 letters: almond, anodal, canola, dolman.
	-4 letters: acold, adman, alamo, aland, canal, coala, comal, daman, dolma, domal, macon, modal, monad, nodal, nomad.
	-5 letters: alan, alma, anal, anoa, calm, calo, clad, clam, clan, clod, clon, coal, coda, cola, cold, coma, dada, dado, damn, dona, lama, land, load, loam, loan, loca, mana, mano, moan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-l-m-n-o"
	+5 letters: hydrodynamical.
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