Macedonian
UK /mæsəˈdəʊniən/ · US /mæsəˈdoʊniən/ adjective, noun
Forms Macedonians Makedonian
- adjective Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
- noun (countable) A person from Macedonia (in any sense).
- noun (uncountable) A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.
- noun (historical) The tongue of the Ancient Macedonians, spoken in Macedon during the 1st millennium BC. (see Ancient Macedonian)
- noun (uncountable) The Greek dialect in Macedonia, region of Greece.
- adjective (historical, Christianity) Pertaining to the Macedonian heresy or to Macedonian heretics.
- noun (historical, Christianity) A member of an anti–Nicene Creed sect founded by the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople, which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries.
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Etymology
From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.
From Middle English Macedonyan, from Latin Macedoniānus, from Macedonius + -ānus, after the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.
- adjective A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.
- noun One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “Macedonian”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details