ma
noun
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ma
1 American
[mah]
/ mɑ /
noun
Informal.
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mas
plural
Ma
2
American
[mah]
/ mɑ /
noun
MA
3
American
mA
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American
M.A.
5
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abbreviation
M.A.
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Psychology. mental age.
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Military Academy.
MA
1
British
abbreviation
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Massachusetts
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Master of Arts
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psychol mental age
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Military Academy
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Morocco (international car registration)
Ma
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British
/ mɑː /
noun
ma
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British
/ mɑː /
noun
ma
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ma1
Shortened variant of mama
Origin of M.A.5
From Latin Magister Artium
Vocabulary lists containing ma
Example Sentences
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Thanks to Stone, three human turntables spinning at once went from competitively filling space to, in the spirit of ma, making space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
"Good afternoon ma, I have not seen the hospital items"
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
The first gallery — voluminous, glowing, visually still — introduced the Japanese concept of ma, sometimes described as an emptiness full of possibilities, into a Western ensemble of forms straight from the geometry book.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
“Think Marination ma kai with a 98118 twist …” they say on Facebook.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
“Later, we’ll build your ma a real house,” Father says repeatedly.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Xi met then-Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore in 2015, the first meeting between leaders of the two sides since 1949.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Actor D’Arcy Carden stopped by early, beating the cadre of guests crowding the main plaza beneath the now-famous oculus of the 300,000-square-foot Ma Yansong-designed building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Compared with the moguls who started companies during China’s go-go years, like Alibaba’s Jack Ma, many solo entrepreneurs are just looking to live cheaply and be self-sustaining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ma had instilled in us the importance of education, but I also felt my athletic value would rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Ma clutched at the fabric of her housedress.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
MA says it has high conviction in the company’s Green Bay copper-gold project, which it thinks will be comfortably funded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
He is now 38 and living in exile in the Netherlands, where he was granted asylum, and is pursuing an MA in political science - following in his father's footsteps.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I lay out the problem, ask if I might be so bold as to invite myself, along with a couple of colleagues, to Cambridge, MA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Ali's connection to the rental properties via real estate company MA Holdings, which purchased them with buy-to-let mortgages, was first reported by the Times newspaper.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In 1667, Newton was elected to a minor Fellowship at Trinity, which would automatically become a major Fellowship when he became an MA in 1668.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Additionally, the capacity retained after 1000 cycles at 5 A g−1 was 558.5 mA h g−1.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
The battery showed a high reversible specific capacity of 1535.4 mA h g−1 for the first cycle at 0.2 A g−1 and an exceptional rate capability of 887 mA h g−1 at 5 A g−1.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
Calculate the effective resistance of a pocket calculator that has a 1.35-V battery and through which 0.200 mA flows.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
A 20.0 Hz, 16.0 V source produces a 2.00 mA current when connected to a capacitor.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
GFIs are usually set to interrupt the circuit if the leakage current is greater than 5 mA, the accepted maximum harmless shock.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
She earned a B.A. from Sewanee: the University of the South, and an M.A. from Columbia University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
M.A., an assistant professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
Missy has a M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from UCLA.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
Thompson will be joined on the 27-player roster by Angel City FC teammate M.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
I was impressed with his degree, but when I met him, I thought to myself, “This chap has an M.A. and he is not even wearing a tie!”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The original term for devil mas is "Jab Molassie," which is French patois for "Molasses Devil".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
It was the first meal I remember enjoying in more than a year, and I wanted to memorialize the feeling with a tattoo of the Korean character for “savor,” mas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
I’m trying to ask writers: What does living mas mean?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
She’s still la mas chingona — the ultimate badass — emcee Enrique Cerna said as he welcomed her to the stage in October.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
She was about to go after a rabbit, but I thought that wasn’t proper fare for a post-Christ- mas breakfast, so we went to the stream.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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