Macedonian
[,mæsi'dəunjən]
Definition
(noun.) the Slavic language of modern Macedonia.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Macedon.
(adj.) of or relating to Macedonia or its inhabitants; 'Macedonian hills' .
Edited by Gillian--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.
(n.) 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.
Editor: Seth
Examples
- Such were the Phrygians, a people whose language was almost as close to that of the Greeks as the Macedonian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many of the leading officers had brought their families to witness the hunting down of the Macedonian invaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have noted how the Keltic peoples drizzled westward, how the Italians, the Greeks, and their Epirote, Macedonian, and Phrygian kindred came south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They represented the Aristotelian, the Hellenic, and Macedonian element. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Macedonian phalanx was merely a more solid version of the Theban phalanx. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like the Egyptians, the Babylonians were not greatly concerned at a change of rule to Macedonian from Persian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A time comes when the Greek mind turns round, so to speak, from its disputes, and stares in one united dismay at the Macedonian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Politically the world seemed falling back towards personal monarchy of the Assyrian or Macedonian pattern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It tells of a Macedonian officer and a Theban lady. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That poor crumpled Macedonian brute in the well had been doing only what he had been told he had full liberty to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then suddenly the disciplined Macedonian cavalry charged at one of these torn places and smote the centre of the Persian host. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had made his little country into the leading state in a great Gr?co-Macedonian confederacy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Macedonians, he said. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From this time onward the Greeks were with the Macedonians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the presence of Macedonians and Greeks he doubted if he was divine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was that also to assimilate Europe and Asia, or was it to make himself independent of his Macedonians? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Indeed it is rather that Egypt conquered and annexed the Ptolemies politically, than that the Macedonians ruled Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The scheme was not welcome to the Macedonians, who were in revolt against marching any further into India, and he had to fly the camp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the next seven years he wandered with an army chiefly of Macedonians in the north and east of what was then the known world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It would mean lowering themselves to the level of equality and fellowship with Macedonians--a people from whom we do not get even a decent slave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Egyptians also were with the Macedonians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The utmost reach of the thought of Greece before his time was of a Persian empire Hellenized, a predominance in the world of Macedonians and Greeks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A large part of Southern Italy came over to Hannibal, including Capua, the city next in size to Rome, and the Macedonians allied themselves with him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Finally a breach in the walls was made, and the Macedonians, clambering up the débris from their ships, stormed the city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This drunken self-complacency was more than the honest Macedonians could stand; it roused Clitus, his foster-brother, to a frenzy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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