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
4
American
M.A.
5
American
abbreviation
M.A.
6
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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
3
British
/ mɑː /
noun
ma
4
British
abbreviation
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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It took a Stone throw to find the ma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
"Right ma, love ya. I'll see you soon."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
“Tunes hiv been whirlin aroon in the air an in ma heid an hairt since I wis a bairn, an I wis composing tunes an songs even then,” she wrote in her book.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
“Think Marination ma kai with a 98118 twist …” they say on Facebook.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
“From my talk with your ma, I gather that you haven’t faced up to what you did.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The commitments from senior management and an influential figure like Ma, who is no longer on the company’s board, helped to shore up Alibaba’s foundering share price.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Our research challenges the long-held idea that baryon number is simply divided among and carried by the three quarks," said Ma.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Founder Pony Ma earlier this year likened Tencent's previous AI efforts to a "leaky" ship, adding: "We still hope the ship can sail faster."
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
She, like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith who came before her, remains an enduring touchstone of black musical culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Auntie Matchmaker took them out of his hand and passed them back to Ma before she continued to address me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“It is totally standard for MA plans to pay commissions to insurance brokers who sign Medicare beneficiaries up for their plans; this new relationship is plausibly just a variation on that broader theme.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Even a student who graduates with an MA degree ends up joining this oil business."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
“The Dodgers had committed to paying and whatever it was, it was a lot more collectively — my undergraduate MA and PhD — than I had gotten in the bonus.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Fidel forecasts a 4% decline in revenue from Medicare Advantage this year but estimates “a ~50% increase in MA EBIT” because of UnitedHealth’s reset pricing and cost savings, in part from artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● May 1, 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
At about 300 mA and above, the shock can cause burns, depending on the concentration of current—the more concentrated, the greater the likelihood of burns.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The justly celebrated Paul Volcker, central banking hero and Fed chairman from 1979 to 1987, had an M.A. in political economy, but no Ph.D.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 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
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 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
“Caring for her own, best as she can. Like all us mas and pas.”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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