Usually means: Mother, maternal figure; Chinese "horse".
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We found 63 dictionaries that define the word MA:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ma: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. MA, MA, Ma, ma, mA: Merriam-Webster
  3. MA, ma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. MA, ma, mA: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ma: Collins English Dictionary
  6. MA, ma, mA: Vocabulary.com
  7. M.A, MA, Ma, m'a, ma, ma, ma, ma, mA: Wordnik
  8. MA, ma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. M.A, -ma-, ma: Wiktionary
  10. ma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. M.A, MA (Mass.), ma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ma: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MA(IMP), .ma, m.a, mA: Dictionary.com
  14. ma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. m.a, ma: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. M.A, MA (Oxon), MA (journal), MA (magazine), MA, Ma (Korean surname), Ma (Rare Earth album), Ma (cuneiform), Ma (disambiguation), Ma (film), Ma (goddess), Ma (kana), Ma (myth), Ma (negative space), Ma (surname), Ma (unit), Ma, .ma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ma: Rhymezone
  19. Ma, ma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. MA, MA, .ma: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. ma: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Ma: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ma: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Ma (nt): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ma: Cooking Dictionary
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. MA: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. MA(1), MA: Glossary of research economics
  4. MA: Management Methods, Models, and Theories
  5. MA: Investopedia
  6. Ma (unit): Legal dictionary
  7. MA: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ma: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MA: Netlingo
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. mA: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MA: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. M.A, MA: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MA(CL), MA(DS), MA(Econ), MA(Ed), MA(EdMgt), MA(EngLang), MA(EngStud), MA(IMP), MA-, MA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  3. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  4. MA: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. MA: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. MA, ma: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  7. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ma: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.A, Ma, ma, ma, (noun): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Karate Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MA: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ma)

▸ noun:  Postal abbreviation of Massachusetts, a state of the United States of America.
▸ noun:  Maluku, a province of Indonesia.
▸ noun:  Maranhão, a state of Brazil.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama
▸ noun:  (colloquial) The landlady of a theater.
▸ noun:  May.
▸ noun:  (art) Negative space in Japanese art.
▸ noun:  A common surname from Chinese of East Asian derivation.
▸ noun:  A language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
▸ adjective:  (statistics) Initialism of moving average.
▸ noun:  Initialism of Master of Arts. [A postgraduate degree usually in a non-science subject.]
▸ noun:  (US, television) Initialism of mature audience, a television rating.
▸ noun:  (US, military) Initialism of master-at-arms; also MAA. [(UK, Navy) A warrant officer or chief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship.]
▸ noun:  (astronomy, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.
▸ noun:  Abbreviation of May.

Similar:
mom, momma, mammy, mommy, mum, mater, mama, mummy, Master of Arts, AM, more...

Opposite:
father, dad, pa, papa, pop

Types:
mother, mom, mama, mommy, maternal, more...

Phrases:
ma huang, Yo-Yo Ma, Ma Bell, yo yo ma, Ma Rainey, more...


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Similar:
mom, momma, mammy, mommy, mum, mater, mama, mummy, Master of Arts, AM, more...

Opposite:
father, dad, pa, papa, pop

Types:
mother, mom, mama, mommy, maternal, more...

Phrases:
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