MG

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mg"

Translingual

Symbol

MG

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Madagascar.

   Synonym: MDG (alpha-3)

English

Noun

MG (countable and uncountable, plural MGs)

An MG (sense 1).

Also known as an MGB. The letters "MGB" stand for "MG B-model". "MG" stands for "Morris Garages", the original name of the company that produced the car.

1. (countable) A sports car manufactured by Morris Garages.
   • 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 332:

     Joseph […] walked directly to the driverʼs side of a perfectly beautiful red MG.

3. (countable, military) Initialism of machine gun.

   Hypernyms: firearm < gun < weapon

   Hyponyms: HMG, heavy machine gun, MMG, medium machine gun, GPMG, general-purpose machine gun, LMG, light machine gun, SMG, submachine gun

4. Initialism of mycotic granulomatosis.
5. (countable, pathology) Initialism of myasthenia gravis.

Derived terms

Terms derived from "MG" (machine gun)

• GPMG (“general purpose machine gun”)
• HMG (“heavy machine gun”)
• LMG (“light machine gun”)
• MMG (“medium machine gun”)
• SMG (“submachine gun”)

Proper noun

MG

1. Initialism of Morris Garages, a British sports-car manufacturer.
2. Initialism of Minas Gerais: a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil

Adjective

MG (not comparable)

1. (papermaking) Initialism of machine-glazed.

See also

• MG (car) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GM, gm, gm.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈɡeː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

MG n (strong, genitive MGs or MG, plural MGs or MG)

1. initialism of Maschinengewehr (“machine gun”)

Declension

Declension of MG [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	MG	die	MGs, MG
genitive	eines	des	MGs, MG	der	MGs, MG
dative	einem	dem	MG	den	MGs, MG
accusative	ein	das	MG	die	MGs, MG

See also

• MP f

Portuguese

Proper noun

MG f

1. initialism of Minas Gerais: a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil

Further reading

• “MG”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026