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milligram

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • US: /ˈmɪlɪɡɹæm/
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  • CMU ARPABET: M IH1 L AH0 G R AE2 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An SI unit of mass equal to 10−3 grams. Symbol: mg

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: metrology

Examples

  • Holonyms: gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
  • Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

one thousandth (1/1,000) gram

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mg

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metric weight unit, weight unit

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- + gram.

Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: milligram — milligram
  • Arabic: مِلِّيغْرَام (millīḡrām) — milligram
  • Asturian: miligramu — milligram
  • Bengali: মিলিগ্রাম (miligram) — milligram
  • Burmese: မီလီဂရမ် (miliga.ram) — milligram
  • Catalan: mil·ligram — milligram
  • Chinese Mandarin: 毫克 (háokè) — milligram
  • Czech: miligram — milligram
  • Danish: milligram — milligram
  • Esperanto: miligramo — milligram
  • Finnish: milligramma — milligram
  • French: milligramme — milligram
  • Galician: miligramo — milligram
  • German: Milligramm — milligram
  • Greek: χιλιοστόγραμμο (chiliostógrammo) — milligram
  • Hindi: मिलीग्राम (milīgrām) — milligram
  • Hungarian: milligramm — milligram
  • Ido: miligramo — milligram
  • Italian: milligrammo — milligram
  • Japanese: ミリグラム (miriguramu) — milligram
  • Kannada: ಮಿಲ್ಲೀಗ್ರಾಮು (millīgrāmu) — milligram
  • Khmer: មិល្លីក្រាម (millii-kraam) — milligram
  • Korean: 밀리그램 (milligeuraem) — milligram
  • Malagasy: miligrama — milligram
  • Norwegian Bokmål: milligram — milligram
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: milligram — milligram
  • Pannonian Rusyn: милиґрам (miligram) — milligram
  • Polish: miligram — milligram
  • Portuguese: miligrama — milligram
  • Romanian: miligram — milligram
  • Russian: миллигра́мм (milligrámm) — milligram
  • Spanish: miligramo — milligram
  • Swedish: milligram — milligram
  • Tagalog: miligramo — milligram
  • Telugu: మిల్లీగ్రాము (millīgrāmu) — milligram
  • Thai: มิลลิกรัม (min-lí-gram) — milligram
  • Vietnamese: miligam — milligram
  • Yiddish: מיליגראַם (miligram) — milligram
  • Yoruba: mílígíráàmù — milligram