macadam

See also: Macadam and MacAdam

English

Alternative forms

• McAdam

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), who invented the process of macadamization. Used for describing road surfaces originally constructed using the McAdam method, but now sometimes used for any road or street.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈkædəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

macadam (countable and uncountable, plural macadams)

1. (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
2. (US, dated, countable) Any road or street.

Derived terms

• macadamize
• tarmac
• tarmacadam

Translations

surface of a road

• Bulgarian: макадам (bg) m (makadam)
• Czech: makadam (cs) m
• Finnish: sepeli (fi), murske (fi)
• German: Makadam (de) m or n
• Hungarian: makadám (hu)
• Polish: makadam (pl) m
• Russian: ще́бень (ru) m (ščébenʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: bìth f, teàrr f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: макадам m

  Roman: makadam (sh) m

• Ukrainian: макадам m (makadam)

Verb

macadam (third-person singular simple present macadams, present participle macadaming or macadamming, simple past and past participle macadamed or macadammed)

1. (transitive) To cover or surface with macadam.

See also

• asphalt

Further reading

• macadam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

macadam m (plural macadams)

1. macadam

Further reading

• “macadam”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French macadam or German Makadam.

Noun

macadam n (plural macadamuri)

1. macadam (surface of a road)

Declension

Declension of macadam

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) macadam	macadamul	(niște) macadamuri	macadamurile
genitive/dative	(unui) macadam	macadamului	(unor) macadamuri	macadamurilor
vocative	macadamule		macadamurilor

Spanish

Noun

macadam m (plural macadams or macadam)

1. macadam

Further reading

• “macadam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16