Definition of ma
: mother
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Examples of ma in a Sentence
Her ma and pa both said she can't go.
I told my ma that on Mother's Day we'd be dining at the town's toniest restaurant.
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These were the sons of ma-and-pa grocery stores who had closed when Wal-Mart took over.
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Come for a lesson on the importance of male friendship and stay for Will Ferrell demanding ma’s meatloaf.
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Outsiders think of Sichuan food as spicy hot, or la, but the more prevalent and unique characteristic of the cuisine is ma, the citrus tingle of Sichuan pepper.
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Je réaffirme ma détermination absolue à lutter contre l’antisémitisme.
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Bowling is a realtime embodiment of Newton’s Second Law, known as F=ma to those of the science ilk.
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Can anyone—your sister, your best friend, your ma—ever know the totality of you?
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In one of the funniest, squirmy bits, Zhang and his ma are consigned to a dark basement.
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For hey-ma-look-at-me lips, layer it on top of a matte red lipstick to get a super-lush look.
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Definition of MA
1
[Medieval Latin magister artium]
master of arts
2
Massachusetts
3
mental age
4
Middle Ages
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