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
American
abbreviation
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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
2
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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"Good afternoon ma, I have not seen the hospital items"
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
“I wonder what we did to you that makes you go there so often,” my ma said a few years back on the phone while I sat in the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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
I’ve just got to focus on one thing: finding my ma.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
A research team led by Fudan University physicists Yu-Gang Ma and Xu-Guang Huang set out to map how acceleration forms and changes inside quark-gluon plasma.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ian Hoskins, owner of the Ma Pub Group in northwestern Liverpool, broadly welcomed the announcement, but told Sky News it remained a "drop in the ocean".
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
It is absolutely revelatory regarding how Ma Rainey sang, how it mattered, and who she was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
And as Ma gasps her final breaths, she makes her smart little girl promise to never lose sight of her ultimate goal.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
But even Ma and I never talked about friends, boys, dating.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“We think the declining affordability of standalone PDPs could sway seniors to select MA coverage and further increase MA penetration.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
MA has a sell rating and A$12.10 target on Greatland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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
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 power of the electron beam in this tube if it has a current of 15.0 mA.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
At 10 to 20 mA and above, the current can stimulate sustained muscular contractions much as regular nerve impulses do.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The threshold for ventricular fibrillation is between 100 and 300 mA.
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
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
In retrospect, Lockert wishes that she hadn’t wasted so much money on her M.A.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 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
“She the home girl thas what I meant , have mas love for her” Echeverria wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
I’m trying to ask writers: What does living mas mean?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
Mr McIntosh and his wife Caroline lead the eponymous Ronnie and Caro mas band.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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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