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Definition of Mackenzie
1. Noun. Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820).
2. Noun. A Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea.
Definition of Mackenzie
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Scottish Gaelic dot=) of Scottish origin. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames female given name), transferred use of the surname since the 1970s, also in the form Makenzie. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mackenzie
Literary usage of Mackenzie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"THE GREAT Mackenzie BASIN. THE select committee of the Senate of the Dominion of
Canada, appointed to inquire into the resources of the Mackenzie basin, ..."
2. The British Essayistsedited by Alexander Chalmers edited by Alexander Chalmers (1807)
"Mr. MackenzIe. A Correspondent, the Rev. Mr. Greenfield, Professor of Rhetoric and
... Mr. Abercromby; except the short Note at the End, by Mr. Mackenzie. ..."
3. Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell; cr. 1895; Principal Royal Academy of Music;
... Lewis Mackenzie, Scots Greys, and Nancy, od and heiress of SF Bancroft; ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"For a far foreign land he has hoisted his sail, Farewell to Mackenzie, High Chief
of Kintail ! O, swift be the galley and hardy her crew, May her captain be ..."
5. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"Mackenzie was exasperated. His newspaper was resumed under the name of The
Constitution, and its attacks were most virulent. The popular mind, however, ..."
6. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1883)
"IN 1842 Captain Mackenzie, on his return from the coast of Africa in the United
... Commodore Perry informed me that Captain Mackenzie had gone with his ..."
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