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

Proper noun

MG

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

Noun

MG (countable and uncountable, plural MGs)

1. 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.

2. (military) Abbreviation of machine gun.
3. (pathology) Initialism of myasthenia gravis.

Derived terms

machine gun

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

Adjective

MG (not comparable)

1. (papermaking) Initialism of machine-glazed.

See also

• MG (car) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• GM, gm

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈɡeː/

• Audio

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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

1. (Brazil) Initialism of Minas Gerais (Brazilian state)