MacBook

English

MacBook

MacBook Air

Etymology

A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh +‎ notebook.

Noun

MacBook (plural MacBooks)

1. A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.
   • 2006, Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2, page 135:

     Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.

   • 2007, Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 52:

     The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.

   • 2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times:

     In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.

   • 2008, Stephen James, David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 114:

     I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.

   • 2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project, National Public Radio

     Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook Air, and he was trying to save the MacBook Air from falling […]

Alternative forms

• Macbook (nonstandard)

Related terms

• iBook
• PowerBook
• Mac
• Macintosh

Translations

device

• Dutch: MacBook c
• French: MacBook m
• German: MacBook n
• Polish: MacBook m
• Portuguese: MacBook m
• Spanish: MacBook m

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English MacBook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak.buk/

Noun

MacBook m (plural MacBooks)

1. MacBook

   Hypernyms: ordinateur portable, ordinateur

Polish

MacBook

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English MacBook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.buk/
• Rhymes: -aɡbuk
• Syllabification: Mac‧Book

Noun

MacBook m inan or m animal

1. (computing) MacBook (MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer)

   Coordinate term: iBook

Declension

Declension of MacBook

	singular	plural
nominative	MacBook	MacBooki
genitive	MacBooka	MacBooków
dative	MacBookowi	MacBookom
accusative	MacBook/MacBooka	MacBooki
instrumental	MacBookiem	MacBookami
locative	MacBooku	MacBookach
vocative	MacBooku	MacBooki

Further reading

• MacBook in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.kiˈbu.ki/, /ˌmɛkˈbuk/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛ.kiˈbu.ki/, /ˌmɛkˈbuk/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛkˈbuk/, /ˌmɛ.kiˈbu.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛkˈbuk/ [ˌmɛkˈβuk]

Noun

MacBook m (plural MacBooks)

1. MacBook (device)