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mackay

/məˈkeɪ/

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What does mackay mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname, alternative form of MacKay.
  2. A city and local government area (Mackay Region) in northern Queensland, Australia.
  3. A town in Custer County, Idaho, United States.
More meanings (2)

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.

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IPA pronunciation

/məˈkeɪ/

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Our Landlady, by name Mrs. Mackay, is a nice clean old body--exceedingly civil and attentive.
Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished LettersProject Gutenberg ebook #2739
And many times by the roadside Mackay saw something that reminded him forcibly of why he had come to Formosa--a heathen shrine.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
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Meanwhile the other party, composed of Professor David, Mawson, and Mackay, had set off to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole.
Roald AmundsenThe South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1Translated by Arthur G. ChaterProject Gutenberg ebook #3414
As Dr. Mackay has remarked, in all the woeful annals of the witch-persecutions, there is nothing so astounding and revolting as the burning and putting to death of mere children for practising the arts of the devil.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966
He was a good pedestrian; at the age of fifty-eight I find him covering seventeen miles over the moors of the Mackay country in less than seven hours, and that is not bad travelling for a scramble.
Robert Louis StevensonRecords of a Family of EngineersProject Gutenberg ebook #280