MCCARTNEY

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• MCCARTNEY (noun)
  The noun MCCARTNEY has 1 sense:

1. English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)

  Familiarity information: MCCARTNEY used as a noun is very rare.

• MCCARTNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

McCartney; Paul McCartney; Sir James Paul McCartney

Instance hypernyms:

rock star (a famous singer of rock music)

ballad maker; songster; songwriter (a composer of words or music for popular songs)

Holonyms ("McCartney" is a member of...):

Beatles (a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon))

 Context examples 

Understanding the complex impacts of urbanization on biotic systems requires computational approaches that can integrate multiple sources of data on human activity, ecology and biodiversity, said Peter McCartney, a program director in NSF's Division of Biological Infrastructure.

(Urbanization delays spring plant growth in warm regions, National Science Foundation)