iMac

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noun

One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.

OriginEnglish Mac ← Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche ← Old Irish toísech →
CommonScrabble 8
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Meanings

nouniMac (plural iMacs)

plural iMacs

  1. trademarkOne of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.

    her face bathed in the blue light of her hypnotically addictive 24-inch iMac

    2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 115
    1 more example

    When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.

    2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
imacintosh

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Proto-Germanic*natją
  8. Proto-West Germanic*nati
  9. Old Englishnett
  10. Middle Englishnet
  11. Englishnet
  12. Proto-Indo-European*werǵ-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*wérǵom
  14. Proto-Germanic*werką
  15. Proto-West Germanic*werk
  16. Old Englishweorc
  17. Middle Englishwerk
  18. Englishwork
  19. Englishnetwork
  20. Englishinternetwork
  21. EnglishInternet
  22. Englishi-
  23. Proto-Celtic*makkʷos
  24. Old Irishmacc
  25. Middle Irishmac
  26. Scottish Gaelicmac
  27. Scottish Gaelican
  28. Proto-Celtic*to-
  29. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  30. Proto-Indo-European*wéydtus
  31. Proto-Celtic*wissus
  32. Proto-Celtic*towissus
  33. Proto-Celtic*towissākos
  34. Old Irishtoísech
  35. Scottish Gaelictòisiche
  36. Scottish GaelicMac an Tòisiche
  37. EnglishMcIntosh
  38. EnglishMacintosh
  39. EnglishMac
  40. EnglishiMac

First use appears in 1998, from i- (“internet”) + Mac (“Macintosh”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

micacamicimaamicmaci
Cite this entry
APA

iMac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iMac

MLA

“iMac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iMac. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “iMac,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iMac.

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