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Ma   /mɑ/   Listen
Ma

noun
1.
Informal terms for a mother.  Synonyms: mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mummy.
2.
A master's degree in arts and sciences.  Synonyms: AM, Artium Magister, Master of Arts.
3.
One thousandth of an ampere.  Synonym: milliampere.
4.
A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies.  Synonyms: Bay State, Massachusetts, Old Colony.



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"Ma" Quotes from Famous Books



... wink of sleep, for after being so angry with him that I could have hit him, I lay crying and thinking what a wicked woman I was for half-wishing that he was dead; for he is my husband, my dear, after all, and—Morning, ma'am—I mean, good-afternoon," cried the woman respectfully. "I am so sorry to be late this week, and I hope the ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn

... book-learnin'; I like her all the better just as she is, bless her dear little heart! I'm after little Daisy Brooks," he said, bowing to the ladies who met him at the door. "I heard she was here—run away from school, you see, ma'am—but I'll forgive the little gypsy. Tell her old Uncle John is here. She'll be powerful ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey

... gravely taking out his spectacles, and wiping them before he opened the roll of paper; "some boy's daubing, I suppose, whose pa and ma wish to get him into the Trustees' School, and so are beating about for a little interest.—But I am drained dry—I put three lads in last season; and if it had not been my particular interest with the secretary, who asks my ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... "I don't, ma'am, indeed I don't," she answered; when gentle Miss Martha observed, "I did not wish to hurt your feelings, Mrs Burton"; and Miss Anna Maria, who was fond of laughing, said something which made her laugh, and then she laughed ...
— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston

... snake, ma'am," he returned thickly. He slid down from his pony and staggered to the edge of the porch, leaning against one of the slender posts and hanging dizzily on. "You see, ma'am, that damned rattler got Ferguson. But Ferguson ain't reckonin' on dyin' till sundown. He couldn't ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer


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