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ema

ema noun: a wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.

Noun (1)

ema (plural ema)

  1. A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.

Noun (2) capitalized: EMA

EMA (countable and uncountable, plural EMAs)

  1. (European-Union, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of European Medical Association (association representing Medical Doctors in Europe).
  2. (European-Union, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of European Medicines Agency (a European Union agency for the evaluation of medicinal products).
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Excess Milage Allowance.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of exponential moving average.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of economically motivated adulteration.

Forms of ema

pluralema
pluralEMAs

Origin of ema

Derived from Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

Questions about ema

What does ema mean?
Ema means a wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
What part of speech is ema?
Ema is a noun.
What is the plural of ema?
The plural of ema is ema.

Words near ema in the dictionary

  1. em spaces
  2. em-
  3. em- -en
  4. em-dash
  5. em-dashes
  6. ema
  7. ema datshi
  8. EMAC
  9. emacerate
  10. emacerated
  11. emacerates

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