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Meaning 1
A widespread chain of fast food restaurants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
McDonald's
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/məkˈdɒnəldz/
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General-American: /mɪkˈdɑnəldz/
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noun
Meaning 2
Food from a McDonald's restaurant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 2014, May 22, Don Thompson, quoted in "McDonald's CEO insists fast-food giant pays 'fair wages' as protesters rally", The Guardian My parents eat McDonald’s and they are here today – they are quite healthy.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From McDonald (surname) + -'s, after the two brothers who founded the company, Richard and Maurice McDonald.
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Amharic: መክዶናልድስ (mäkdonaldəs) — fast-food restaurant
- Arabic: مَاكْدُونَالْدْز (makdūnaldz) — fast-food restaurant
- Arabic: مَاكْدُونَالْدْز (makdonaldz) — fast-food restaurant
- Armenian: ՄաքԴոնալդս (MakʻDonalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Belarusian: Макдо́налдс (Makdónalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Belarusian: Макдо́нальдс (Makdónalʹds) — fast-food restaurant
- Bengali: ম্যাকডোনাল্ড’স (mêkḑonalḑ's) — fast-food restaurant
- Bulgarian: Макдо́налдс (Makdónalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Chinese Cantonese: 麥當勞 /麦当劳 (mak6 dong1 lou4) — fast-food restaurant
- Chinese Cantonese: 麥記 /麦记 (mak6 gei3) — fast-food restaurant
- Chinese Cantonese: M記 /M记 (em1 gei3) — fast-food restaurant
- Chinese Cantonese: 老麥 /老麦 — fast-food restaurant
- Hakka Chinese: 麥當勞 /麦当劳 (Ma̍k-tông-lò) — fast-food restaurant
- Chinese Mandarin: 麥當勞 /麦当劳 (Màidāngláo) — fast-food restaurant
- Czech: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Czech: mekáč — fast-food restaurant
- Dutch: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Dutch: Maccie — fast-food restaurant
- Estonian: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Estonian: mäkk — fast-food restaurant
- Finnish: McDonald’s — fast-food restaurant
- Finnish: mäkkäri — fast-food restaurant
- Finnish: mäkki — fast-food restaurant
- French: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- French: MacDo — fast-food restaurant
- French: McDo — fast-food restaurant
- Georgian: მაკდონალდსი (maḳdonaldsi) — fast-food restaurant
- German: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- German: Mäckes — fast-food restaurant
- Greek: Μακντόναλντς (Makntónalnts) — fast-food restaurant
- Gujarati: મૅક્ડોનલ્ડ્સ્ (měkḍonalḍs) — fast-food restaurant
- Hebrew: מקדונלד׳ס (makdonald’s) — fast-food restaurant
- Hindi: मैकडॉनल्ड्स (maikḍŏnalḍs) — fast-food restaurant
- Hungarian: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Hungarian: meki — fast-food restaurant
- Indonesian: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Indonesian: Mekdi — fast-food restaurant
- Inuktitut: ᒪᒃᑑᓇᓪᑦᔅ (maktoonalts) — fast-food restaurant
- Japanese: マクドナルド (Makudonarudo) — fast-food restaurant
- Japanese: マック (Makku) — fast-food restaurant
- Japanese: マクド (Makudo) — fast-food restaurant
- Kannada: ಮಕ್ಡೊನಲ್ದ್ಸ್ (makḍonalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Korean: 맥도날드 (Maekdonaldeu) — fast-food restaurant
- Korean: 맥날 (Maengnal) — fast-food restaurant
- Latvian: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Latvian: Makdonalds — fast-food restaurant
- Latvian: maķītis — fast-food restaurant
- Lithuanian: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Lithuanian: makas — fast-food restaurant
- Macedonian: Мекдо́налдс (Mekdónalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Malay: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Malay: ميك دونلدس — fast-food restaurant
- Malay: Mekdi — fast-food restaurant
- Marathi: मॅक्डॉनल्ड्ज (mĕkḍŏnalḍja) — fast-food restaurant
- Persian: مکدونالدز (mak-donâldz) — fast-food restaurant
- Polish: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Portuguese: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Portuguese: Mac — fast-food restaurant
- Portuguese: Méqui — fast-food restaurant
- Russian: Макдо́налдс (Makdónalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Russian: Макдо́нальдс (Makdónalʹds) — fast-food restaurant
- Russian: Макдак (Makdak) — fast-food restaurant
- Serbo-Croatian: Мекдоналдс — fast-food restaurant
- Serbo-Croatian: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Sinhalese: මැක්ඩොනල්ඩ්ස් (mækḍonalḍs) — fast-food restaurant
- Slovene: McDonald’s — fast-food restaurant
- Slovene: Meka — fast-food restaurant
- Spanish: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Swedish: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Swedish: Donken — fast-food restaurant
- Swedish: Gyllene måsen — fast-food restaurant
- Tagalog: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Tagalog: McDo — fast-food restaurant
- Tamil: மெக்டொனால்ட்ஸ் (mekṭoṉālṭs) — fast-food restaurant
- Telugu: మక్డొనాల్డ్స్ (makḍonālḍs) — fast-food restaurant
- Thai: แมคโดนัลด์ (mɛ́k-doo-nôo) — fast-food restaurant
- Ukrainian: МакДо́нальдз (MakDónalʹdz) — fast-food restaurant
- Ukrainian: Макдо́налдс (Makdónalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Ukrainian: Мак (Mak) — fast-food restaurant
- Urdu: میکڈانلڈس (maikḍānalḍs) — fast-food restaurant
- Uyghur: ماكدونالد (makdonald) — fast-food restaurant
- Uyghur: ماكدونالدس (makdonalds) — fast-food restaurant
- Vietnamese: McDonald's — fast-food restaurant
- Yiddish: מאַקדאָנאַלדס (makdonalds) — fast-food restaurant
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