MacBook

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noun

A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

MacBook1

nounMacBook (plural MacBooks)

plural MacBooks · alternative nonstandard Macbook

  1. A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.

    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 […]

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    Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.

    2006, Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2, page 135

    The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.

    2007, Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 52

    In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.

    2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times

    I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.

    2008, Stephen James, David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 114

Macbook2

nounMacbook (plural Macbooks)

plural Macbooks

  1. nonstandardNonstandard form of MacBook.

Origin

  1. Proto-Celtic*makkʷos
  2. Old Irishmacc
  3. Middle Irishmac
  4. Scottish Gaelicmac
  5. Scottish Gaelican
  6. Proto-Celtic*to-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*wéydtus
  9. Proto-Celtic*wissus
  10. Proto-Celtic*towissus
  11. Proto-Celtic*towissākos
  12. Old Irishtoísech
  13. Scottish Gaelictòisiche
  14. Scottish GaelicMac an Tòisiche
  15. EnglishMcIntosh
  16. EnglishMacintosh
  17. Old Frenchnote
  18. Middle Englishnote
  19. Englishnote
  20. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
  21. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
  22. Proto-Germanic*bōks
  23. Proto-West Germanic*bōk
  24. Old Englishbōc
  25. Middle Englishbok
  26. Englishbook
  27. Englishnotebook
  28. EnglishMacBook

A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.

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Translations

Dutch MacBook
  • MacBookdevice
French MacBook
  • MacBookdevice
German MacBook
  • MacBookdevice
Polish MacBook
  • MacBookdevice
Portuguese MacBook
  • MacBookdevice
Spanish MacBook
  • MacBookdevice
Cite this entry
APA

MacBook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MacBook

MLA

“MacBook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MacBook. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “MacBook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MacBook.

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