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macbeth

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for macbeth.

Editorial note

I have never discussed Macbeth at dinner, but it helped me understand an important aspect of the world.

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Quick take

A William Shakespeare play, about the Scottish royal family.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A William Shakespeare play, about the Scottish royal family.

noun

The title character of said play.

noun

An 11th-century king of Scotland.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for macbeth.

noun

A William Shakespeare play, about the Scottish royal family.

noun

The title character of said play.

noun

An 11th-century king of Scotland.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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I have never discussed Macbeth at dinner, but it helped me understand an important aspect of the world.

2

Londo Mollari, the alien with the upward-pointing hair, goes from Falstaff to Macbeth to redemption, and that's far from the main story.

3

Does Horvath's characterisation of the founder's wife remind anyone else of Lady MacBeth?

4

It was built after Macbeth tried to monetize by spamming SA.

5

Other plays like Hamlet, MacBeth, humble me.

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I have experience with, but a strong dislike of, classical Frequentist / hypothesis-testing methods, especially in econometrics (things like panel data analysis, Fama MacBeth Regression, Seemingly Unrelated Regression, etc.).

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Wikipedia: >A number of commercial software products were created in HyperCard, most notably the original version of the interactive game narrative Myst, the Voyager Company's Expanded Books, and multimedia CD-ROMs of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony CD-ROM, the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, and the Voyager MacBeth.

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Can see a lot of bad or dumb behavior from humans, disloyalty, deception, manipulation, self-deception, etc.; again, generally we have better sources now, but, say, Lady Macbeth was one nasty woman.

Quote examples

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I'll stick with my babe Lady Macbeth and use "damned", thanks for the input.

2

For example, the words "fear" and "fair" would have almost sounded identical in early 1600 leading to a play on words of the two themes in Macbeth.

3

Shortly after his play came to the end of its brief run he heard his new thunder effects used at a performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth, whereupon he is said to have exclaimed: “Damn them!

4

"What is this before me?" is from Macbeth ("dagger of the mind").

Proper noun examples

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And he borrowed from Shakespeare: Ran was based heavily on King Lear, Throne of Blood on Macbeth, and maybe some others too.

2

Macbeth is nominally about Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, who died in 1057.

3

Few things will teach you more about reading the news than Macbeth, but reading the news alone won't even begin to do the opposite.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use macbeth in a sentence?

I have never discussed Macbeth at dinner, but it helped me understand an important aspect of the world.

What does macbeth mean?

A William Shakespeare play, about the Scottish royal family.

What part of speech is macbeth?

macbeth is commonly used as noun.