Macon
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A dry red or white burgundy wine produced around Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines. countable, uncountable
- 2 A type of oar blade with an elliptical shape which is squared off at the end, with a ridgeline running down the centre of the blade face.
- 3 Mutton bacon, a form of bacon made from cured mutton. uncountable
- 4 fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry wordnet
- 1 Alternative spelling of Mâcon, a city in France. alt-of, alternative
- 2 A surname.
- 3 A city, the county seat of Bibb County, Georgia, United States, with which it is now consolidated as Macon-Bibb County.
- 4 A city, the county seat of Noxubee County, Mississippi, United States.
- 5 A city, the county seat of Macon County, Missouri, United States.
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More examples"Somehow, a nearly bankrupt third-party publisher flashed the new Castlevania game onto the memory incompletely. As a result, an entire generation of kids in Macon, Georgia unanimously condemned it as "Simon Does Nothing but Fall into a Bottomless Pit.""
Etymology
An anglicized form of French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).
Named in honor of Nathaniel Macon.
Named after French Mâcon, due to the West German team's highly successful performance at the 1959 European Rowing Championships which took place there; attributed in part to their use of macon blades.
Blend of mutton + bacon.
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