M
Scrabble:3 ptsWWF:4 pts1 letters
Definition of M
noun
verb
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
- Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
- Belonging to males; typically used by males.
"“John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names."
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
noun
noun
- (always meter) A device that measures things.
- (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- (always meter) One who metes or measures.
"a labouring coal-meter"
- (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
- (elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
noun
- The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
- Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
noun
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
"the minims of existence"
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
noun
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
"You have twenty minutes to complete the test."
- A short but unspecified time period.
"Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!"
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
"We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc."
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
"Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting."
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
"If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes."
Anagrams of M
Related Word Patterns
Letter Values
m3
Total: 3 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Not Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Not Valid
Words With Friends: Not Valid
Last verified: December 2024
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "M"
M is a 1-letter word that scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words With Friends.
Using "M" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "m" is a low-scoring word.