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  • //ɛm//

The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

numeral

  1. 1

    The thirteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    A film with the content rating M.

  2. 2

    the number of minutes a player spent at the crease

  3. 3

    the number of maiden overs bowled

  4. 4

    Variant of motherInitialism of mother.

  5. 5

    Variant of menInitialism of men (sign on toilet door).

    From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.

  6. 6

    Variant of MondayAbbreviation of Monday.

  7. 7

    Variant of nautical mileAbbreviation of nautical mile.

  8. 8

    Variant of millionInitialism of million.

  9. 9

    Variant of mediaInitialism of media.

  10. 10

    Variant of mediumInitialism of medium (the manufactured size or an item of that size).

  11. 11

    Variant of minorityAbbreviation of minority.

    EOE M/F/V/H

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    Variant of morphineslangInitialism of morphine.

    [Doctors] always carry narcotic prescription blanks and some M with them. M is morphine.

    “Anyway, when he came out of Patsy's room, I grabbed him by the arm and said, ‘Gee whiz, doc, haven't you got a couple of pills for me—even demerol?’ ” / Willie broke off to explain. “That's a synthetic. We call them demmies. If you can't buy H or M, why, demmies will do the trick.”

    That night Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M, which of course he didn’t give her; he did give her a martini.

    'You were going to get me some M,' she whispered in his ear. […] His friend uses morphine, too.

  13. 13

    Variant of MuslimInitialism of Muslim; mostly used by Hindutva netizens primarily towards Islamist supporters and Muslim militants.

  14. 14

    Variant of masochistInitialism of masochist.

    In all the sexual encounters I have participated in or know of the "M" sets the limits as to what to get into and how much pain will be applied. And of course if the scene gets too rough the "M" has the right to stop it.

Etymology

Abbreviation.

noun

  1. 1

    Monsieur.

    I also advise reading the Merlin of M Jean Prévost, published by the N. R. F., a swift audacious picture of post-war love, treated with the grace of a Crébillon or of a Restif de la Bretonne. I could not recommend too highly the Petite Histoire des Juifs which MM Jean and Jérôme Tharaud have just published with Plon.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Michigan.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of maleInitialism of male.

    So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.

  2. 2

    Variant of mediumInitialism of medium (of the manufactured size).

  3. 3

    Variant of matureInitialism of mature.

    The ESRB rated the video game M for Mature as it contained excessive blood and gore.

Forms

plural
Ms, M's, Messrs, MM
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).