"Meg" meaning in All languages combined

See Meg on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

IPA: /mɛɡ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav Forms: Megs [plural]
enPR: mĕg Rhymes: -ɛɡ Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Meg (plural Megs)
  1. A diminutive of the female given names Margaret or Megan. Categories (topical): English diminutives of female given names, English female given names, English given names Synonyms: Megs
    Sense id: en-Meg-en-name-qlFgGqzo
  2. (India) Initialism of Meghalaya. Tags: India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Meghalaya
    Sense id: en-Meg-en-name-XIX4Z317 Categories (other): Indian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /mɛɡ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav Forms: Megs [plural]
enPR: mĕg Rhymes: -ɛɡ Head templates: {{en-noun}} Meg (plural Megs)
  1. (colloquial) Megalodon. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-Meg-en-noun-zK~y2MIS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 13 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 7 54 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 5 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Megs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Meg (plural Megs)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English diminutives of female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Diminutives of female given names",
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Diminutive nouns",
            "Names",
            "Nouns",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Lemmas",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1818, John Keats, Meg Merrilies:",
          "text": "Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,\nAnd tall as Amazon:\nAn old red blanket cloak she wore,\nA chip-hat had she on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 208:",
          "text": "My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.\n'What kind of name is that,' she said.\n'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'\n'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given names Margaret or Megan."
      ],
      "id": "en-Meg-en-name-qlFgGqzo",
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given names",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Margaret",
          "Margaret#English"
        ],
        [
          "Megan",
          "Megan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "78 22",
          "word": "Megs"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Meghalaya"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Meghalaya."
      ],
      "id": "en-Meg-en-name-XIX4Z317",
      "links": [
        [
          "Meghalaya",
          "Meghalaya#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) Initialism of Meghalaya."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "mĕg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛɡ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɡ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Meg"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Megs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Meg (plural Megs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 13 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 7 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 5 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, page 33:",
          "text": "The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Megalodon."
      ],
      "id": "en-Meg-en-noun-zK~y2MIS",
      "links": [
        [
          "Megalodon",
          "megalodon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Megalodon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "mĕg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛɡ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɡ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Meg"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛɡ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛɡ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Megs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Meg (plural Megs)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English diminutives of female given names",
        "English female given names",
        "English given names",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1818, John Keats, Meg Merrilies:",
          "text": "Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,\nAnd tall as Amazon:\nAn old red blanket cloak she wore,\nA chip-hat had she on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 208:",
          "text": "My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.\n'What kind of name is that,' she said.\n'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'\n'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given names Margaret or Megan."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given names",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Margaret",
          "Margaret#English"
        ],
        [
          "Megan",
          "Megan#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Meghalaya"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "Indian English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Meghalaya."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Meghalaya",
          "Meghalaya#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India) Initialism of Meghalaya."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "mĕg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛɡ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɡ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Megs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Meg"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛɡ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛɡ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Megs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Meg (plural Megs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, page 33:",
          "text": "The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Megalodon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Megalodon",
          "megalodon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Megalodon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "mĕg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛɡ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Meg.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Meg.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɡ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Meg"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Meg meaning in All languages combined (3.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.