Macbeth

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A William Shakespeare play, about the Scottish royal family
  • The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play.
  • An 11th-century king of Scotland.

Origin

  • Anglicization of Middle Irish Mac Bethad, equivalent to the modern mac bheatha.

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