macedon

Questions about macedon

What does macedon mean?

macedon means "the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria".

How many syllables are in macedon?

macedon has 3 syllables and divides as ma-ce-don under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for macedon?

Close synonyms include Macedonia, Makedonija. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is macedon a common word?

macedon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.