mag
noun
mag
1 American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
Informal.
mag
2
American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
-
a magpie.
-
talk; chatter.
verb (used without object)
magged,
magging
Mag
3
American
[mag]
/ mæg /
noun
mag.
4
American
abbreviation
-
magazine.
-
magnetism.
-
magneto.
-
magnitude.
-
(in prescriptions) large.
mag
1
British
/ mæɡ /
verb
noun
mag.
2
British
abbreviation
-
magazine
-
magnitude
mag
3
British
/ mæɡ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of mag1
Shortened form
Origin of mag2
Shortened form of magpie
Origin of mag.4
From the Latin word magnus
Example Sentences
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Whether or not you care about infidelity and hosts’ personal lives, listeners to Huberman’s podcast should not sweep aside the contents of the New York mag story as mere gossip.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2024
Not just Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in this month's glossy mag, or news that "discreet chic" is back and flamboyant "statement gowns" are out!
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
Where I used to live in Colorado, I could see mag 5 stars from my driveway after I got dark-adapted, but light pollution from nearby towns made fainter stars invisible.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
In fact, “Two Loves,” the Lord Alfred Douglas poem the phrase comes from, was published in 1894 in the Oxford student lit mag.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
The stack of lit mag submissions is huge since the first-quarter poetry and short-story classes have finished.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
Its shares slid nearly 7% Thursday amid a broader tech selloff that erased hundreds of billions of dollars from the Mag 7 stocks’ value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Individual investors have bought a net $52 million of Microsoft shares in July so far, Vanda’s data show, making it the most popular Mag Seven member.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“In our view, the Mag 7 is dead as a construct for assessing large-cap growth dynamics, and it has been for some time,” say strategists at Citi, led by Scott Chronert.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Given the Mag 7 is funding much of the semiconductor demand, this divergence looks unsustainable,” the Ned Davis analysts wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Mrs. Chavez loaned her the striped shirt that had had the buttons torn off at Lake Mag.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Did I ask you to send me my books and papers, and all the bound volumes of the mag.? quorum pars.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
Dear Editor: In the short time your mag. has been out, it has already established itself as the best in the field.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
I tackled Phillis about it, and she said the mag. was meant to be serious, not comic.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
Enemata, composed of mag. sulphas and warm water, were frequently thrown into the intestines; as soon as one came away another was thrown up.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Beef Tea She never magged; she never said no word; But sat an' looked at me an' never stirred.
From The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis
Worn, fretted, and stretched rope, as a magged brace.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
But I'm bound the members as silenced us, in doing it had plenty of magging.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
And I suppose I'd been magging so hard all yesterday about myself that I hadn't given the girl a chance to put her life history across me!
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
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