Macaulay

[muh-kaw-lee]

noun

1. Dame Rose, c1885–1958, English poet and novelist.

2. Thomas Babington 1st Baron, 1800–59, English historian, author, and statesman.

Macaulay

/ məˈkɔːlɪ /

noun

1. Dame Rose. 1881–1958, British novelist. Her books include Dangerous Ages (1921) and The Towers of Trebizond (1956)

2. Thomas Babington, 1st Baron. 1800–59, English historian, essayist, and statesman. His History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848–61) is regarded as a classic of the Whig interpretation of history

Other Word Forms

• Macaulayan adjective
• Macaulayism noun

Example Sentences

Their approaches, wrote the 19th-century historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, differ as “a portrait differs from the representation of an imaginary scene.”

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Christie's prints expert Murray Macaulay described the illustration for Blake's best known work as "charming" and a "little more Tigger than Tyger".

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“I bet you never imagined the father of your kid looking like Macaulay Culkin in ‘Home Alone.’”

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She had been working an office job and enjoyed a trip to London with her husband Macaulay.

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Macaulay's father, who was also called Fred, died at the age of 73 in 2002 after years of battling prostate cancer and mesothelioma.

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