Mg

//meɪd͡ʒ// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sports car manufactured by Morris Garages. countable

    "Joseph […] walked directly to the driverʼs side of a perfectly beautiful red MG."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of meaning. abbreviation, alt-of

    "The Ger. zurück-weisen has just the same mgs."

  3. 3
    Abbreviation of Maung A title for males (analogous to Mr in standard English). Myanmar, abbreviation, alt-of
  4. 4
    Abbreviation of mage A gender-neutral title used instead of Mr (Mister), Mrs (Mistress), etc. abbreviation, alt-of
  5. 5
    one thousandth (1/1,000) gram wordnet
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  1. 6
    Initialism of machine gun. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  2. 7
    a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine) wordnet
  3. 8
    Initialism of mycotic granulomatosis. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 9
    Initialism of myasthenia gravis. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Adjective
  1. 1
    Initialism of machine-glazed. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Morris Garages, a British sports-car manufacturer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Initialism of Minas Gerais: a state of Brazil. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Example

More examples

"Magnesium is the name for the chemical element with atomic number 12 and is represented by the symbol Mg. Magnesium is an alkaline earth metal."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of Maung. Borrowed from Burmese မောင် (maung).

Etymology 2

Coined in 2024, at least in part on the mistaken notion that mage is descended from magister, the same as Mr and Ms.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.