macbook
/mˈækbˌʊk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.
noun
Nonstandard form of MacBook.
Example Sentences
- "Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro."
- "The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed."
- "In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook."
- "I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte."
- "2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project, National Public Radio Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook Air, and he was trying to save the MacBook Air from falling […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *makkʷos Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi) Old Irish macc Middle Irish mac Scottish Gaelic mac Scottish Gaelic an Proto-Celtic *to- Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Indo-European *wéydtus Proto-Celtic *wissus Proto-Celtic *towissus Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂kos Proto-Celtic *-ākos Proto-Celtic *towissākos Primitive Irish ᚈᚑᚃᚔᚄᚐᚉᚔ (tovisaci) Old Irish toísech Scottish Gaelic tòisiche Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche English McIntosh English Macintosh Old French notebor. Middle English note English note Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.? Proto-Germanic *bōks Proto-West Germanic *bōk Old English bōc Middle English bok English book English notebook blend English MacBook A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.