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eng

US/ɛŋ/

eng adjective: narrow.

Adjective

eng

  1. (obsolete, regional) Narrow.
    • The hole was too eng for him to get through.

Noun (1)

eng (plural engs)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Ŋ/ŋ, formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Sami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages.
  2. The velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink.
    Synonyms:
    agma, engma

Proper noun (1) capitalized: ENG

ENG

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of England.

Noun (2) capitalized: ENG

ENG (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of electronic newsgathering.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Eng

Eng

  1. A surname.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of England

eng meaning in Bengali

eng in Bengali

ইং

Synonyms of eng

Forms of eng

pluralengs

Plural of eng: engs

Origin of eng

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also compare Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *angī, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz. No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”).

Probably created by analogy with other names for nasal consonants em (m) and en (n).

Words formed from eng

Phrases with eng

Words that rhyme with eng

Questions about eng

What does eng mean?
Eng means narrow.
What is eng in Bengali?
Eng in Bengali is ইং. See Eng meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is eng?
Eng can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce eng?
Eng is pronounced /ɛŋ/ (US).

Words near eng in the dictionary

  1. enfrozen
  2. ENFs
  3. enfurvirtide
  4. enfurvitide
  5. enfuvirtide
  6. eng
  7. Eng Chhun
  8. Eng Choon
  9. Eng'g
  10. Eng'r
  11. Eng-chhun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eng (page history and authors); ENG (page history and authors); Eng (page history and authors); eng (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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