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Meg

Meg

See also: meg, MEG, még, mēg, -meg, and meg-

English

Proper noun

Meg

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
    • 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies:
      Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
      And tall as Amazon:
      An old red blanket cloak she wore,
      A chip-hat had she on.
    • 1985 E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, page 208
      My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.
      'What kind of name is that,' she said.
      'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'
      'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'

Anagrams

meg

meg

See also: Meg, MEG, még, mēg, -meg, and meg-

English

Noun

meg (plural megs)

  1. (slang) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-, such as megahertz
    (computing) - My new computer has over 500 megs of RAM. = megabyte
    (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg" = megahertz
    (heating) - "a 250 meg gas heater" = megajoules

Usage notes

  • Mostly encountered in speech, less often in writing.

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Anagrams


Esperanto

Esperanto cardinal numbers
1,000,000
    Cardinal : meg
    Ordinal : mega

Etymology

Back-formation from mega-.

Numeral

meg

  1. (neologism, rare) million, 106

Synonyms


Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [meː]

Pronoun

meg sg

  1. me, accusative singular of eg (I)

Declension


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛɡ]

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *müŋä (rear, beyond). For a similar semantic development, see Finnish cognate myös (also, too). Of the same origin as mögött, mögé, and mögül.[1]

Conjunction

meg

  1. and
  2. plus (sum of the previous one and the following one)
    Három meg egy egyenlő néggyel. ― Three plus one equals four.

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References

  1. Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #552

Livonian

Pronoun

meg

  1. we; plural nominative form of minā

Lojban

Rafsi

meg

  1. rafsi of megdo.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæɪ̯/

Pronoun

meg

  1. me (direct object of a verb); objective case of jeg

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːɡ/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

meg

  1. me (direct object of a verb); objective case of eg

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References


Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) matg
  • (Vallader) mai

Etymology

From Latin (mensis) Māius (of May).

Proper noun

meg m

  1. (Puter) May