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say it: muh-KAHRT-nee
mccartney is a noun meaning "English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)". It is pronounced /məˈkɑɹtni/ — muh-KAHRT-nee. It carries one recorded sense.
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mccartney come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.