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- mayfly noun (a mayfly, mayflies)
1) A delicate insect with see-through wings and long tails that lives for years as a young nymph in water but, as a flying adult, often… - mayhap adverb (old use, in fairy tales)
1) Mayhap means perhaps or maybe; it is an old word for a guess about what may happen. - mayo noun (mayo, uncountable – short for mayonnaise); noun (Mayo – a county in Ireland)
1) (informal) Short for mayonnaise: a thick, creamy white sauce made from egg yolks, oil and lemon juice or vinegar, eaten with chips… - mayonnaise noun (mayonnaise — uncountable; informal «mayo»)
1) Mayonnaise is a thick, creamy, pale yellow sauce made from egg yolks, oil and lemon juice or vinegar, eaten cold in sandwiches, on… - mayor noun (a mayor, mayors)
The leader of a town or city council, chosen to run the town or to represent it. - mayoress noun (mayoress, mayoresses)
A mayoress is the wife of a mayor, who often attends town events beside him. - maypole noun (maypole, maypoles)
A maypole is a tall pole decorated with flowers and ribbons, which people dance around on May Day. - maze noun (a maze, mazes)
A maze is a puzzle made of paths or passages with walls or hedges, where you have to find the way through without getting lost. - mb abbreviation (MB, Mb, mb)
MB = megabyte: a unit of computer memory or file size, about one million bytes. - mead noun (mead, no plural)
1) Mead is a sweet drink made from honey and water, sometimes with spices, drunk long ago at feasts. - meadow noun (a meadow, meadows)
1) A meadow is a field of grass and wild flowers, often used for hay or grazing animals. - meagre adjective (meagre — UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ; meager — US; more meagre, most meagre)
1) Small in amount, not enough: «a meagre meal», «meagre wages». 2) (old) Thin, lean. - 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. - mealtime noun (a mealtime, mealtimes)
1) A time of day when people eat a meal, such as breakfast, lunch or dinner. - mealworm noun (a mealworm, mealworms)
The larva (young form) of a darkling beetle; it looks like a small yellow-brown worm and eats grain and flour. - 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? - meander verb (meander, meanders, meandered, meandering); noun (a meander, meanders)
To turn this way and that in slow curves instead of going straight. - meanie noun (a meanie, meanies); also meany
A meanie is a person who is unkind, selfish or not generous, said in a childish or playful way. - 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. - meaningful adjective (meaningful, more meaningful, most meaningful)
Having a clear meaning or making sense: «a meaningful sentence». - meaningless adjective (meaningless, more meaningless)
1) Meaningless means having no meaning or no sense: a meaningless string of letters. 2) Meaningless means having no purpose or importance. - meanly adverb (meanly)
1) Meanly means in an unkind or nasty way. 2) Meanly can mean in a stingy way, not willing to share or spend. 3) Meanly can mean poorly or… - meanness noun (meanness, uncountable)
1) Meanness is being unkind or nasty to others. 2) Meanness is not wanting to share or spend money; being stingy. - meantime noun (in the meantime); adverb (meantime)
The time between two events: «in the meantime» means while you wait for something else to happen. - meanwhile adverb; noun (in the meanwhile)
At the same time, while something else is happening: Meanwhile, back at the castle.. - measles noun (measles; uncountable, takes a singular verb)
An illness caused by a virus that spreads very easily; it gives a high fever, a cough, red eyes and a red, blotchy rash all over the body. - measurable adjective (measurable)
1) Measurable means able to be measured. 2) Measurable also means big enough to be noticed, like a measurable difference. - measurably adverb (measurably)
1) By an amount that can be measured or noticed: «measurably better». 2) Clearly and noticeably, not just a tiny bit. - 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. - measurement noun (a measurement, measurements; also uncountable)
A measurement is a number with a unit that tells how long, heavy, big, hot or fast something is. - meat noun (meat — uncountable; meats for types)
1) Meat is the flesh of animals, such as cows, pigs, sheep and chickens, eaten as food. - meatless adjective (meatless)
1) Meatless means without meat. - meaty adjective (meaty, meatier, meatiest)
Full of meat or tasting of meat: «a meaty stew». - mecca noun (Mecca; also a mecca, meccas)
1) Mecca (also spelled Makkah) is the holiest city of Islam, in Saudi Arabia; it is where the Prophet Muhammad was born and where Muslims… - mechanic noun (a mechanic, mechanics)
A person whose job is to repair and look after engines and machines, especially cars. - mechanical adjective (mechanical)
To do with machines or worked by machines, with moving parts like gears, levers and wheels. - mechanically adverb (mechanically)
Mechanically means by a machine or using machinery. - mechanism noun (a mechanism, mechanisms)
A mechanism is a set of moving parts in a machine that work together, such as the mechanism of a clock or a lock. - meconium noun (meconium, uncountable)
1) (science, health) The first poo of a newborn baby: dark green, thick and sticky, made from what the baby swallowed in the womb. - med noun (a med, meds — informal); adjective (med, informal); abbreviation (Med, med.)
Short for «medicine» or «medication», usually in the plural: «meds». - medal noun (a medal, medals); verb (medal, medals, medalled, medalling — in sport, rare)
A medal is a flat piece of metal, often round and on a ribbon, given as a prize or to honour someone. - medallion noun (medallion, medallions)
A medallion is a round or oval flat piece of metal or jewellery, worn on a chain, with a picture or design on it. - 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. - median noun (the median, medians); adjective (median)
In maths, the median is the middle number when a list of numbers is put in order. - 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. - medical adjective (medical); noun (a medical — a health check, mainly British)
1) To do with medicine, doctors, illness and keeping people healthy. 2) As a noun, a check of your body by a doctor. - medicament noun (a medicament, medicaments)
1) (formal) A medicine: a substance used to treat an illness or injury, such as a tablet, cream or syrup. - medicare noun, proper name (Medicare)
Medicare is the US government health insurance for people aged 65 and over and some disabled people. - medicate verb (medicate, medicates, medicated, medicating)
To medicate is to give someone medicine, or to treat an illness with medicine. - medication noun (medication, medications)
Medication is medicine: pills, liquids, creams or injections that a doctor gives to treat an illness or stop pain. - medicinal adjective
Medicinal means used to treat illness or helping the body heal: «medicinal plants». - 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. - medina noun (a medina, medinas; Medina — a city)
1) Medina is a city in Saudi Arabia, the second holiest city in Islam, where the Prophet Muhammad lived after moving from Mecca and where… - 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. - mediterranean adjective (Mediterranean); noun (the Mediterranean)
The Mediterranean (Sea) is the large sea between southern Europe, North Africa and western Asia. - medium adjective (medium); noun (a medium, media or mediums)
Medium means in the middle in size, amount or level, not big and not small. - medusa noun (Medusa – a name in Greek myth; a medusa, medusae or medusas – science)
Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, with snakes for hair; anyone who looked at her face was turned to stone. - meek adjective (meek, meeker, meekest); adverb meekly
Quiet, gentle and patient; not easily angry and not wanting to argue. - meekly adverb (meekly)
1) In a quiet, gentle way, without arguing or fighting back. - meekness noun (meekness, no plural)
Meekness is quiet, gentle behaviour; a person with meekness is not proud, loud or angry. - meerkat noun (a meerkat, meerkats)
A meerkat is a small, furry animal of the mongoose family that lives in groups in the deserts and dry grasslands of southern Africa. - 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. - meg noun (Meg – a name; a meg, megs – informal short for megabyte); verb (meg – UK football slang: nutmeg)
Meg is a girl's name, short for Margaret or Megan, like Meg in «Little Women». - megalosaurus noun (Megalosaurus, megalosauruses)
Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now England about 166 million years ago. - megaphone noun (a megaphone, megaphones)
A cone-shaped device you speak into to make your voice louder, so a crowd can hear you; modern ones use batteries and are electric. - mei Mandarin pinyin (méi = not have; měi = beautiful, every; Měiguó = America); name (Mei) — not an English word
«Méi» means «not» or «don't have»: «méiyǒu» is «there isn't» or «I haven't got». - melancholy adjective (melancholy); noun (melancholy, uncountable)
1) A deep, quiet sadness that lasts a while. 2) (adjective) Sad, or making you feel sad, as in «a melancholy song». - melanin noun (melanin — uncountable)
Melanin is the natural dark substance in skin, hair and eyes that gives them their colour. - melatonin noun (melatonin — uncountable)
A natural chemical (a hormone) your body makes when it gets dark, which helps you feel sleepy. - mellow adjective (mellow, mellower, mellowest); verb (mellows, mellowed, mellowing)
Mellow means soft, warm and rich, for light, colour or sound. - mellowed verb form (past of «mellow»: mellow, mellows, mellowed, mellowing); adjective (mellowed)
Became softer, calmer and kinder with age or time: «Grandad has mellowed.». - melodious adjective (melodious, more melodious); adverb: melodiously
1) Melodious means having a pleasant tune, sweet and pleasing to hear. - 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. - meltdown noun (a meltdown, meltdowns)
A serious accident in a nuclear power station when the core gets so hot that it melts. - melting verb form (melt, melts, melted, melting); adjective (melting); noun (melting)
Melting means changing from a solid into a liquid because it gets warm, like ice turning into water. - meltwater noun (meltwater — uncountable)
1) Meltwater is water that comes from melting snow or ice, especially from glaciers and ice sheets. - 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. - membership noun (membership, memberships)
Membership is being a member of a club, group or organisation. - membrane noun (a membrane, membranes)
A very thin layer, like a skin, that covers or lines a part of a living thing or a cell. - membranous adjective (membranous)
Made of a membrane, or like a membrane: thin, soft and skin-like, often so thin you can almost see through it. - meme noun (a meme, memes)
A funny picture, video or phrase that people copy, change and share quickly on the internet. - memoir noun (a memoir, memoirs)
A book or story someone writes about their own life and memories. - memorable adjective (memorable, more memorable, most memorable)
Worth remembering, or easy to remember, because it is special, unusual, very good or very bad. - memorandum noun (a memorandum, memoranda or memorandums); short form memo
A memorandum is a short written message sent inside an office, school or company, telling people about something. - 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. - memorisation noun (memorisation, uncountable; US: memorization)
1) The act of learning something so you can remember it exactly, such as a poem, times tables or spellings. 2) Learning by heart. - memorise verb (memorise, memorises, memorised, memorising; US memorize)
1) To memorise something is to learn it so well that you can remember it exactly without looking. - memory noun (a memory, memories; memory — uncountable)
Memory is the ability of your brain to keep and remember things. - men noun (men – the plural of «man»)
1) Plural of «man»: adult male people. 2) People in general, in old-fashioned writing: «all men are created equal» (now many people prefer… - menace noun (menace, menaces); verb (menace, menaces, menaced, menacing)
1) A menace is a threat of harm or danger. 2) A menace is also a person or thing that is dangerous or annoying. 3) (verb) To menace is to… - menacing adjective (menacing; more menacing, most menacing); verb (menace, menaces, menaced, menacing)
1) Seeming likely to cause harm; threatening: «a menacing look». 2) (verb) Threatening or putting someone or something in danger.
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