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MACBETH
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• MACBETH (noun)
The noun MACBETH has 1 sense:
1. king of Scotland (died in 1057)
Familiarity information: MACBETH used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
King of Scotland (died in 1057)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
Context examples
““Why, being gone, I am a man again,” like Macbeth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She stood there, by that beech-trunk—a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Neither Hamlet, nor Macbeth, nor Othello, nor Douglas, nor The Gamester, presented anything that could satisfy even the tragedians; and The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Wheel of Fortune, Heir at Law, and a long et cetera, were successively dismissed with yet warmer objections.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The shade of a young butcher rises, like the apparition of an armed head in Macbeth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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