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CM

CM noun: a member of the Order of Canada. Also the initialism of chief minister.

Noun (1)

CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)

  1. (Canada) A member of the Order of Canada.

Noun (2) capitalized: cM

cM (plural cM)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of centimorgan.

Also used as

CM is also the initialism of chief minister.

CM is also the initialism of commercial message.

CM is also the initialism of Candidate Master.

CM is also the initialism of command module.

CM is also the initialism of cryptographic module.

CM is also the initialism of configuration management.

Forms of CM

pluralCMs
pluralcM

Origin of CM

Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “commercial video ad”), from English commercial + message.

Questions about CM

What does CM mean?
CM means a member of the Order of Canada.
What part of speech is CM?
CM is a noun.
What is the plural of CM?
The plural of CM is CMs.

Words near CM in the dictionary

  1. cléchée
  2. clôture
  3. clôtures
  4. Clœlia
  5. Clœlius
  6. CM
  7. CM/ECF
  8. CMA
  9. CMAQ
  10. CMAS
  11. cmavo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: CM (page history and authors); cM (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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