macrolide
noun
macrolide is a noun meaning “a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least ten atoms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-L-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of macrolide is macrolides.
What does macrolide mean?
noun
- 1
a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least ten atoms
- 2
Any of a group of antibiotics having this structure
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of macrolide
- macrolides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is macrolide?
Macrolide appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate macrolide?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of macrolide: MLS.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Macrolide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | macrólido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.