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  • pg
    pg
    abbreviation
    picogram; picograms.
  • Pg
    Pg
    abbreviation
    Portugal.
  • PG
    PG
    abbreviation
    parental guidance: a rating assigned to a movie by the MPA indicating that children of all ages may attend but that some material may be deemed unsuitable and that parental guidance is advised.
  • pg.
    pg.
    abbreviation
    page.
  • P.G.
    P.G.
    abbreviation
    Past Grand.
  • Pg.
    Pg.
    abbreviation
    Portugal

pg

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. picogram; picograms.


Pg 2 American  
Or Pg.

abbreviation

  1. Portugal.

  2. Portuguese.


PG 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Trademark. parental guidance: a rating assigned to a movie by the MPA indicating that children of all ages may attend but that some material may be deemed unsuitable and that parental guidance is advised.


PG 4 American  
Or P.G. or p.g.

abbreviation

Informal.
  1. pregnant.


pg. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. page.


P.G. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. Past Grand.

  2. paying guest.

  3. Postgraduate.

  4. Informal. pregnant. Also p.g.


PG 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. paying guest

  2. postgraduate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Pg. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Portugal

  2. Portuguese

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

PG 3 British  

symbol

  1. a film certified for viewing by anyone, but which contains scenes that may be unsuitable for children, for whom parental guidance is necessary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

pg. 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. page

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

pg 5 British  

abbreviation

  1. Papua New Guinea

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of PG

An American designation established in 1972

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A little notebook with 1 pg per acct name - login -- password.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2014

All possibly dialectic/phonetic phrases have been retained, including the following; pg.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons

You don't absolutely need the |more or |pg, but if you don't include it, the list will keep scrolling, rather than pausing every 24 lines.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

No anchor points for Footnotes 3 through 6 or 34 appear in the original text though the footnotes are included in the "Notes to Chapters" beginning on pg.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

The former number, of actual surfaces of order n − 4 with the assigned particularity in regard to the singularities of the surface, is now denoted by pg.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

A single dose brought levels of Pg and Fn down to almost zero.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

"And Pg and Fn infections worsen survival rates of untreated recurrent or metastatic oral cancer, even after surgery and risk-adjusted adjuvant, or supplemental, therapies."

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Because both Cg and Pg are known, this relation can be rearragned and used to solve for k.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

The gauge pressure is Pg = hρg and is found by measuring h .

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Pg 71 The accent ought to lie upon the first note of the mordent, but you should not make a triplet of it by occupying the whole quarter with its execution.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

PG 25 is based in John Wood Street, where the shops were donated to the community years ago by the owners of Lithgows shipbuilders.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

It is his first competitive goal since netting for Suzuka PG, now Atletico Suzuka, against FC Osaka in November 2022.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

For those operating on the PG side of its border, the odds of making a living as an influencer get slimmer by the day.

From Salon May 4, 2026

“This would be PG, essentially. You could even say G-rated. There would be no blood in it. It’s doing clever fighting that makes you smile and laugh.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

By then I had added to the warnings of my teachers what I’d learned about PG County through reporting and reading the papers.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

As a staffer named Amelia wrote: “Mr. Gesner is my new favorite architect! Apparently an awesome guy too — he’s 89 and surfs everyday: check out the boat houses on pg. 90!”

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2014

The reason of this ignorance is no doubt partly due to the busy life which many pg. 2of our bread-winners are constrained to live; but it is also, I think, partly due to mere indolence.

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes

It is a pg. 3matter of observable fact that all plants and animals are perpetually engaged in what Mr. Darwin calls a “struggle for existence.”

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes

For the purpose of the plain text version of this book it has been corrected. pg. xvii - Table of Contents - Chapter XVIII, pg.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons

Ormonde's was changed to Ormond's on pg. xxii.

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton

Coming to a South King County park near you this summer will be Burien Actors Theatre’s production of this 1927 comedy from P.G.

From Seattle Times May 25, 2023

What’s the use of a great city having temptations, as P.G.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2022

These people are merely rich like Fred and Ginger in soundstage Venice, or Bertie Wooster in P.G.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2022

That year, a few months after he’d visited an open Cincinnati City Council meeting to voice concerns about the range, Daniels spotted Cincinnati Council Member P.G.

From Slate Sep. 26, 2021

What appeals to me most is the purely unmilitary prospect of being able to protect the men, to some extent, from the, I'm sure, largely preventible sickness there has been in the P.G.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer

There was no peace Pg. 62for him otherwise.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

Pg. 105He made Watt feel "that the obligation was entirely upon the side of the giver."

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

May the future of Pg. 38Glasgow University copy fair her glorious past!

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

Southey says he actually prevented a duel between Danton and Robespierre by appearing on the ground and remonstrating Pg. 207with them, pointing out that if either fell the cause must suffer.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

When he attacked the problem of steam, as we shall Pg. 41soon see, the same course was followed, although it involved the mastering of three languages, that he should miss nothing.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

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