Definitions

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  • proper noun A male given name.

Etymologies

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Royal name in Scotland, anglicized from Goidelic Mael Coluim " devotee of (Saint) Columba".

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Examples

  • IAN MALCOLM Destroying the World They moved Malcolm to another room in the lodge, to a clean bed.

    Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

  • MALCOLM X: "Wake up, clean up and stand up!" malcolmxfiles. blogspot.com Malcolm X explains that if you don't believe you've ever done anything, then you can never do anything.

    WN.com - Articles related to NASA wants to send you to the moon - Lyrically speaking 2010

  • MALCOLM X: "Wake up, clean up and stand up!" malcolmxfiles. blogspot.com Malcolm X explains that if you don't believe you've ever done anything, then you can never do anything.

    WN.com - Articles related to NASA wants to send you to the moon - Lyrically speaking 2010

  • MALCOLM X-- BET airs this Oscar-nominated drama illuminating the life of civil rights leader Malcolm X following him from his early days as a prison-bound gangster to his conversion to Islam.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • For Q4, I like the term Malcolm used - "metered optimism".

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Malcolm is as wary of unfamiliar fare as any other middle-school boy, and any fare I fixed was, by definition, unfamiliar.

    Roast Chicken deliasherman 2010

  • Malcolm Gladwell wrote Priced to Sell, expressing skepticism about the book, Seth Godin responded with Malcolm is wrong, and Marc Cuban went on to draw the distinction between Free vs. Freely Distributed.

    Creativity 2010

  • The story serves as a bridge between the Firefly television series and the Serenity film and sees Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his crew, as usual, trying to eke out a living on the Rim, away from prying Alliance eyes.

    REVIEW: Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews and Will Conrad 2009

  • Sorry that was a flight of fancy; Harriet Harman being of course the daughter of a Harley Street physician and a solicitor, the niece of an Earl, the grandchild of a RAF Group Captain Malcolm Spicer and having as other recent ancestors an MP, and members of the Spicer paper manufacturing family.

    Harriet Harman class warrior Not a sheep 2009

  • Malcolm is as wary of unfamiliar fare as any other middle-school boy, and any fare I fixed was, by definition, unfamiliar.

    Roast Chicken deliasherman 2010

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