Meanings
MacBook1
plural MacBooks · alternative nonstandard Macbook
- 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 135The 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 52In 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 TimesI 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
Origin
- Proto-Celtic*makkʷos
- Old Irishmacc
- Middle Irishmac
- Scottish Gaelicmac
- Scottish Gaelican
- Proto-Celtic*to-
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
- Proto-Indo-European*wéydtus
- Proto-Celtic*wissus
- Proto-Celtic*towissus
- Proto-Celtic*towissākos
- Old Irishtoísech
- Scottish Gaelictòisiche
- Scottish GaelicMac an Tòisiche
- EnglishMcIntosh
- EnglishMacintosh
- Old Frenchnote
- Middle Englishnote
- Englishnote
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*bōks
- Proto-West Germanic*bōk
- Old Englishbōc
- Middle Englishbok
- Englishbook
- Englishnotebook
- EnglishMacBook
A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch MacBook
- MacBookdevice
French MacBook
- MacBookdevice
German MacBook
- MacBookdevice
Polish MacBook
- MacBookdevice
Portuguese MacBook
- MacBookdevice
Spanish MacBook
- MacBookdevice
Cite this entry
MacBook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MacBook
“MacBook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MacBook. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “MacBook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MacBook.
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