Usually means: Road surfacing material using crushed stones.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. macadam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. macadam: Merriam-Webster
  3. Macadam, macadam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. macadam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. macadam: Collins English Dictionary
  6. macadam: Vocabulary.com
  7. Macadam, macadam: Wordnik
  8. MacAdam, Macadam, macadam: Wiktionary
  9. macadam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. macadam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. macadam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. macadam: Dictionary.com
  13. macadam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Macadam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. macadam: Rhymezone
  16. macadam: FreeDictionary.org
  17. macadam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. macadam: Mnemonic Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macadam: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. macadam: A Word A Day
  3. macadam: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macadam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See macadams as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
noun:  (US, dated, countable) Any road or street.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or surface with macadam.
noun:  A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
noun:  Alternative form of MacAdam [A surname from Scottish Gaelic.]

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