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
Nolan was like, “I’m going to step out — here, take this,” and put a mag of film in my lap.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
‘Put a dressing on it, Matron,’ the doctor said, ‘with plenty of mag sulph paste.’
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
Outside of Nvidia and Apple, capital returns aren’t large at any of the Mag Seven stocks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
“The Mag Seven for years were the market darlings,” said Bret Kenwell, U.S. investment analyst at eToro.
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
On Friday, shares of small-cap chip makers, software companies and the Mag Seven all fell in tandem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Lake Mag girls had mentioned them, yet I had never seen one.
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
I can take off the mag. and see if anything's wrong there; but I'm pretty sure there ain't.
From Cabin Fever by B. M. Bower
Willis made another reference to the two sisters in his "Earnest Clay" where he speaks of "two abominable old maids by the names of Buggins and Blidgins, representing the scan. mag. of Florence."
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur
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
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
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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