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maclean
/məˈkleɪn/
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What does maclean mean?
proper noun
- A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A town in the Northern Rivers region of northern New South Wales, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈkleɪn/
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Mr. MacLean, after describing these three figures, propounds this query: “Does the frog represent the creative, the egg the passive, and the serpent the destructive power of nature?”
Turpin and Bradshaw beset the Great North Road; Duval, Macheath, Maclean, and hundreds of notorious highwaymen infested Hounslow Heath, Finchley Common, Shooter's Hill, and all the approaches to the metropolis.
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“Old Lady Mary Maclean? I need not ask after her. She never misses, I know; and you must have seen her. She must have been in your own circle; for as you went with Lady Dalrymple, you were in the seats of grandeur, round the orchestra, of course.”