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- max noun (max — informal, short for maximum); adjective; verb (max out, maxes, maxed, maxing); also a name (Max)
Short for «maximum»: the biggest amount possible. - may modal verb (may; past/softer: might; may not); noun (May, the month; may, a tree)
May means something is allowed: you may go out. - meadow noun (a meadow, meadows)
1) A meadow is a field of grass and wild flowers, often used for hay or grazing animals. - meal noun (a meal, meals); noun (meal, uncountable — roughly ground grain, as in oatmeal)
A meal is the food you eat at one time, such as breakfast, lunch or dinner. - mean verb (mean, means, meant, meaning); adjective (mean, meaner, meanest); noun (the mean — average)
To mean is to have a sense: What does this word mean? - meaning noun (a meaning, meanings); adjective in «well-meaning»; verb form (mean, means, meant, meaning)
The meaning of a word or sign is what it stands for or expresses. - measure verb (measure, measures, measured, measuring); noun (a measure, measures)
To measure is to find out the size, length, weight, time or amount of something with a tool, like a ruler, a tape, scales or a clock. - meat noun (meat — uncountable; meats for types)
1) Meat is the flesh of animals, such as cows, pigs, sheep and chickens, eaten as food. - meddle verb (meddle, meddles, meddled, meddling)
To get involved in someone else's business when you are not wanted, and often make things worse. - meddling noun (meddling, uncountable); adjective (meddling); verb (-ing form of meddle)
The act of getting involved in other people's business when you are not wanted. - mediaeval adjective (mediaeval; usual spelling medieval)
From or to do with the Middle Ages, the time in Europe from about 500 to 1500 AD. - mediate verb (mediate, mediates, mediated, mediating)
To mediate is to help two people or groups who disagree to talk and find an agreement, without taking sides. - mediator noun (a mediator, mediators)
A mediator is a person who helps two people or groups who disagree to talk calmly and reach an agreement. - medicine noun (medicine — uncountable; a medicine, medicines — a kind of drug)
A pill, liquid or cream that a doctor or chemist gives to help you get better when ill. - medieval adjective (medieval)
Medieval means from or about the Middle Ages, the long period in European history after the Roman times and before the modern age. - meditate verb (meditate, meditates, meditated, meditating)
To meditate is to sit quietly and focus your mind, often on your breathing, to feel calm and peaceful. - meditation noun (meditation, meditations)
Sitting quietly and focusing your mind, for example on your breathing, to feel calm and relaxed. - medley noun
A mixture of different things, often put together without order. - meek adjective (meek, meeker, meekest); adverb meekly
Quiet, gentle and patient; not easily angry and not wanting to argue. - meekness noun (meekness, no plural)
Meekness is quiet, gentle behaviour; a person with meekness is not proud, loud or angry. - meet verb (meet, meets, met, meeting); noun (a meet, meets — a sports event)
To meet is to come together with someone at the same place. - meeting noun (a meeting, meetings); verb, -ing form of meet (meet, meets, met, meeting)
A meeting is when people come together to talk about something, plan or decide. - melody noun (melody, melodies)
A melody is a tune: a series of musical notes, one after another, that sounds pleasing and is easy to remember. - melon noun (melon, melons)
A melon is a big round or oval fruit with a hard skin and a sweet, juicy inside full of seeds. - melt verb (melt, melts, melted, melting)
To melt is to change from a solid into a liquid because of heat: ice melts into water. - mem noun (mem, mems); fragment
The thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, written מ. - member noun (a member, members)
A member is a person who belongs to a group, like a club, a team or a family. - memorial noun (a memorial, memorials); adjective (memorial)
A memorial is a statue, stone, building or event that helps people remember a person who died or something that happened. - memory noun (a memory, memories; memory — uncountable)
Memory is the ability of your brain to keep and remember things. - mend verb (mend, mends, mended, mending); noun (a mend, mends)
To repair something that is broken, torn or not working. - mention verb (mention, mentions, mentioned, mentioning); noun (a mention, mentions)
To say or write something about someone or something briefly, without giving lots of details. - mercenary noun (a mercenary, mercenaries); adjective (mercenary)
A soldier who fights for any country or group that pays them, not for their own country. - merchandise noun (merchandise, uncountable; informal short form «merch»); verb (merchandise, merchandises, merchandised, merchandising)
Goods that are bought and sold, especially in shops. - merchant noun (merchant, merchants); adjective (merchant ship, merchant navy)
A merchant is a person who buys and sells goods to make money, a trader. - merciful adjective (merciful, more merciful, most merciful); adverb mercifully
Showing mercy: kind and forgiving to someone you could punish or harm. - mercury noun (mercury — uncountable, the metal; Mercury — the planet, the Roman god)
Mercury is a silvery metal that is liquid at room temperature; it was used in old thermometers. - mercy noun (mercy, mercies)
Mercy is kindness or forgiveness shown to someone you could punish or hurt. - mere adjective (mere, merest; merely adv.); noun (a mere, meres — old or poetic)
Mere means only, just, no more than: a mere child, a mere five minutes. - merely adverb (merely)
Merely means only or just, showing that something is small or not important. - merit noun (merit, merits — a merit; uncountable merit); verb (merit, merits, merited, meriting)
Merit is the quality of being good and deserving praise or a reward. - merrily adverb (merrily)
1) In a happy, cheerful, jolly way. 2) Carelessly, without thinking about trouble, as in «He merrily ignored the warning». - merry adjective (merry, merrier, merriest)
1) Merry means happy, cheerful and full of fun. 2) (UK, informal) Merry means a little drunk. 3) Merry is used in greetings like "Merry… - mess noun (a mess, messes; mess, uncountable); verb (mess, messes, messed, messing — mess up, mess about/around, mess with)
A mess is a place or things that are untidy or dirty, like a messy bedroom. - message noun (a message, messages); verb (message, messages, messaged, messaging — informal)
A piece of information that someone sends or leaves for another person, in words, writing or on a phone. - messenger noun (a messenger, messengers)
A person who carries a message, letter or parcel from one person or place to another. - messiah noun (the Messiah; a messiah, messiahs)
In Judaism, the Messiah is a future king from the family of David whom God will send to bring peace and rescue the Jewish people. - metaphor noun (a metaphor, metaphors)
1) A metaphor is a way of describing something by saying it IS something else, to show what it is like, without using «like» or «as»: «The… - metaphorical adjective
Used as a picture or comparison, not meant literally. - metaphorically adverb
In a way that uses a comparison or picture, not literally. - metaphysical adjective
Having to do with the deepest ideas about what is real, beyond what we can see and touch. - metaphysics noun
The part of philosophy that asks what is real, what exists, and why. - method noun (a method, methods)
A way of doing something, especially a planned, careful way. - methuselah noun (Methuselah; a methuselah, methuselahs)
Methuselah is a man in the Book of Genesis who is said to have lived 969 years, the oldest person in the Bible. - metic noun
In ancient Greece, a foreigner who lived in a city without being a citizen. - mew verb (mew, mews, mewed, mewing); noun (a mew, mews)
The soft, high crying sound a cat or kitten makes; to make this sound. - mica noun (mica, micas)
A mineral found in rocks that splits into very thin, shiny, see-through sheets. - michael proper noun (Michael — a name)
Michael is a common boy's and man's name in English-speaking countries (a name); short forms are Mike, Mick, Mikey and Mickey. - microcosm noun
A "small world"; a small thing that is a model of the whole universe, such as a human being. - mid prefix and adjective (mid-, mid); preposition (mid — poetic, short for amid)
Mid means in the middle of something, often in a word with a hyphen: mid-morning, mid-air, mid-sentence. - midday noun (midday — uncountable); adjective (midday)
1) Midday is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day; noon. 2) Midday can also mean around the middle of the day. - middle noun (the middle, middles); adjective (middle)
The middle is the part that is halfway between the two ends or sides. - middlemost noun or adjective
The one in the middle of three; the middle one. - midnight noun (midnight — uncountable)
Midnight is twelve o'clock at night, the moment when one day ends and the next one begins. - midrash noun
A Jewish way of explaining the Bible by looking closely at its words and telling stories about them; also a book of such explanations. - midst noun (midst; no plural); also in the midst of (phrase)
The middle part of something, especially among a crowd or group of people. - midwife noun (a midwife, midwives)
A trained nurse or health worker who helps women while they are pregnant, while they give birth and just afterwards. - might modal verb (might — like may, no -s form); noun (might — power, strength)
Used to say something is possible but not sure: "It might rain.". - mightily adverb (mightily)
1) With great strength or force, very hard. 2) Very much, greatly. - mighty adjective (mighty, mightier, mightiest); adverb (mighty — informal, US)
1) Very strong or powerful. 2) Very big and impressive: a mighty river, a mighty oak. 3) (informal, mostly US) Very; really: "That's… - milch adjective
Giving milk; kept for its milk, said of cows or other animals. - mildew noun
A thin white or grey fungus that grows on plants, walls or cloth in damp places. - milk noun (milk — uncountable); verb (milk, milks, milked, milking)
Milk is the white drink that comes from cows, goats and other animals. - mill noun (a mill, mills); verb (mill, mills, milled, milling)
A mill is a building with machines for grinding grain into flour, often powered by wind or water. - miller noun (a miller, millers)
1) A miller is a person who owns or works in a mill, grinding grain into flour. 2) Miller is also a common family name. - millet noun (millet — uncountable)
A kind of grass grown for its small round seeds, which are eaten as grain by people and animals. - million number; noun (a million, millions; two million)
1) A million is the number 1,000,000: a thousand thousands. 2) Millions or a million can mean a very large number, not exact (informal). - millstone noun (a millstone, millstones)
A millstone is one of a pair of large, round, flat stones used in a mill to grind grain into flour. - milt noun
The spleen, a small organ near the stomach; also the sperm of male fish. - mince noun (mince — uncountable) — UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ; verb (mince, minces, minced, mincing)
1) Mince is meat cut into very small pieces in a machine, used for burgers, spaghetti bolognese and cottage pie; in the US and Canada it… - mind noun (a mind, minds); verb (mind, minds, minded, minding)
Your mind is the part of you that thinks, feels, remembers and imagines. - mindful adjective (no change of form; mindful of, mindful that)
1) To be mindful is to keep something in mind and be careful about it: mindful of the rules. - mine pronoun (mine); noun (a mine, mines); verb (mine, mines, mined, mining)
1) (pronoun) Belonging to me: «That book is mine». 2) (noun) A deep hole or tunnels in the ground where people dig out coal, gold, metals… - mingle verb (mingle, mingles, mingled, mingling)
To mingle is to mix things together so that the parts can no longer be told apart. - minister noun (a minister, ministers); verb (minister to — formal)
A minister is a person in charge of a government department, such as the minister for education. - ministry noun (a ministry, ministries)
A government department led by a minister: the Ministry of Education. - minstrel noun (minstrel, minstrels)
A minstrel was, long ago, a singer or musician who travelled from place to place singing songs and telling tales. - minute noun (minute, minutes); adjective minute (said «my-NEWT», very small)
A minute is a short length of time; sixty minutes make an hour. - miracle noun (a miracle, miracles)
A wonderful event that seems impossible and that some people believe is done by God. - miraculous adjective
Like a miracle; amazing and hard to explain: a miraculous escape. - mire noun (mire, mires); verb (mire, mires, mired, miring)
1) Mire is deep, wet mud or soft ground that sucks at your feet. 2) To mire is to get stuck in mud, or to be held back in trouble. - mirror noun (a mirror, mirrors); verb (mirror, mirrors, mirrored, mirroring)
A mirror is a piece of special glass with a shiny back in which you can see yourself and things behind you. - mirth noun (mirth – uncountable)
1) Laughter, fun and great happiness, especially among a group of people. - miry adjective (miry, mirier, miriest — literary)
1) (literary) Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud). - miscarry verb
To lose a baby before it is born; also, in old speech, to fail. - mischief noun (mischief — uncountable)
Mischief is naughty behaviour that is usually playful and not very harmful, like playing tricks. - mischievous adjective
Liking to play tricks and cause small trouble in a playful way: a mischievous puppy. - misdeed noun (a misdeed, misdeeds)
1) (formal) A wrong or bad action, especially a crime or a breaking of rules. 2) Something naughty or wicked that a person has done. - misery noun (misery, miseries)
Great unhappiness or suffering, in body or mind. - misfortune noun (a misfortune, misfortunes; also uncountable)
1) Misfortune is bad luck. 2) A misfortune is an unlucky or bad event that happens to someone. - misleading adjective (misleading; more misleading, most misleading); verb form (present participle of mislead: mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)
Giving people a wrong idea, even if not every word is a lie.
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