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
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American
mA
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American
M.A.
5
American
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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"Right ma, love ya. I'll see you soon."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
Half a century later in L.A., the 1950s geometric abstractions of John McLaughlin are especially notable, exploiting the Japanese principle of spatial intervals known as ma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
“Think Marination ma kai with a 98118 twist …” they say on Facebook.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
After he finished, I saw a man who looked to be a local farmer approach him and ask: "Laih al-nar lay Al-Amrikan? Leh ma tad'o laihom bi al-hidaya?"
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022
Story is, my ma was friends with Ben before they left for New World, that they were both members of the Church when the offer of leaving and starting up a settlement was made.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
When his roommates left their dorm each morning, Ma would wander Beijing, sitting in parks and looking at stray cats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Before, everyone expected life would keep getting better, your income would keep growing. Now, it’s different,” said Ma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ma Moe San Pan's case highlights a grim mutation of the junta's mandatory conscription laws: mounting pressure from the higher levels of the regime has created perverse incentives further down the chain of command.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Ma Moe San Pan's cousin worked at the local ward administration office, and she asked him to bring her husband back.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Ma had shown me how to marinate it with soya, garlic, and fermented black bean.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“Paying MA plans more is likely an inefficient way of delivering better benefits to beneficiaries,” Fiedler said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The deal also offers some potential benefits for Capstone, including reducing operating risk, says MA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
According to FactSet, the consensus price target on Evolution is A$13.50/share, indicating a price around A$0.92/share for Carnaby, MA says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
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
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
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
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
For these people, currents as low as 0.1 mA may cause ventricular fibrillation.
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
Missy has a M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from UCLA.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
"A common misconception is that opioid overdoses primarily affect younger people," said Gab Pasia, M.A., lead author of the study and a medical student at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
After a slow start, Angel City came alive late in the first half, getting goals from M.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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 mas has been slowly but surely dying, it's sad to see," Curdell says.
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
Those days, the world feels as gray and cold as it really is and it's hard not to believe the new girl isn't mas mejor than me.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
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