Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MA

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Definitions of MA

1. A language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2. (statistics) Initialism of moving average.
3. Initialism of Master of Arts.
4. (US, TV) Initialism of mature audience, a television rating.
5. (US, military) Initialism of master-at-arms; also MAA.
6. (astronomy, usually, in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.
7. (colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama
8. (colloquial) The landlady of a theater.
9. Abbreviation of May.
10. A common surname from Chinese of East Asian derivation.
11. (postal abbreviation) A @abbrev of:Massachusetts state in US.
12. A @abbrev of:Maluku province in Indonesia.
13. A @abbrev of:Maranhão state in Brazil.
14. (art) Negative space in Japanese art.
15. May.
16. (informal, in direct address) Mother, mom, mama.

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Examples of Using MA in a Sentence

• It is most notable for its appearance on the heraldic badge of the House of Savoy, where it is accompanied by the motto Stringe ma non costringe, "It tightens, but does not constrain".
• Ma Jun, Chinese mechanical engineer from Cao Wei, invents the south-pointing chariot, a path-finding directional compass vehicle that uses a differential gear, not magnetics.
• The term's appearance in English dates back to the early 18th century, when Charles Perrault's fairy tale collection, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye, was first translated into English as Tales of My Mother Goose.
• Running north–south and parallel to (and west of) Nathan Road, a main thoroughfare up the Kowloon peninsula, Portland Street extends through the districts of Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok in Kowloon.
• While they explored the area, they found tree markings with the letters MANI and MA, signifying to them that other Englishmen that been there before.
• It has been called "the backbone of China" because it is a major driving force in the Chinese economy and being the birthplace of several notable people, including the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and entrepreneur Jack Ma.
• Sowa received a BS in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, an MA in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1966, and a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1999 with a dissertation titled "Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations".
• In 2022 former President Ma Ying-jeou, who opposes the styling of the holiday as Taiwan National Day, publicly called for current President Tsai Ing-wen to stop using the name Taiwan National Day in material associated with the holiday.

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