maxwell

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈmækswɛl/

Definition of maxwell

14 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose.
    “A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor.”
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name

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose.
    “A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor.”
  2. Any of various widely known persons so named, such as James Clerk Maxwell.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    “A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.””
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  12. A hamlet in Grey Highlands municipality, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
  13. A locality in the Wagga Wagga council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.

noun

  1. A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From an earlier form Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's well or spring", from Old English welle (“well”).

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