Nouns in english starting with M

• magazine — Noun – English ～ a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
• magazine — Noun – English ～ product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object; "tripped over a pile of magazines"
• magdalen — Noun – English ～ a reformed prostitute
• Magdalena — Noun – English ～ a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla
• magellan — Noun – English ～ Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
• Magellanic Cloud — Noun – English ～ either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole
• Magen David — Noun – English ～ a six-pointed star formed from two equilateral triangles; an emblem symbolizing Judaism
• Magenta — Noun – English ～ a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
• magenta — Noun – English ～ a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
• maggot — Noun – English ～ the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter
• Magh — Noun – English ～ the eleventh month of the Hindu calendar; corresponds to January in the Gregorian calendar
• Magha — Noun – English ～ the eleventh month of the Hindu calendar; corresponds to January in the Gregorian calendar
• maghreb — Noun – English ～ the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia
• Magi — Noun – English ～ (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them
• magic — Noun – English ～ an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
• magic eye — Noun – English ～ a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations
• magic — Noun – English ～ any art that invokes supernatural powers
• magic lantern — Noun – English ～ an early form of slide projector
• magic bullet — Noun – English ～ a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease; "there is no magic bullet against cancer"
• magical ability — Noun – English ～ an ability to perform magic

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