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mab

mab noun: a slattern.

Noun (1)

mab (plural mabs)

  1. (obsolete) A slattern.
  2. (obsolete) A cab; a hackney.

Verb

mab (third-person singular simple present mabs, present participle mabbing, simple past and past participle mabbed)

  1. (obsolete) To dress untidily.

Proper noun capitalized: Mab

Mab

  1. A moon of Uranus
  2. A female given name, related to Maeve.
    • "Good-bye, Mab," said Mr. Ford, stretching out his arm, and gathering her to his heart. "Good-bye, darling - you will think of the old man, eh?" Tears and kisses were Mab's only reply.1864, Julia Kavanagh, Queen Mab, page 162
    • “Consider,” Mab said, “that I have done something for her that you never could have.” “What's that, exactly?” “I have put her beyond the reach of the White Council and their Wardens,” Mab said, again […]2012 November 27, Jim Butcher, Cold Days, Penguin, →ISBN

Noun (2) capitalized: MAb

MAb (plural MAbs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of m(onoclonal) a(nti)b(ody).

Noun (3) capitalized: mAb

mAb (plural mAbs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of monoclonal antibody.
    • Clinicians in the United States relied strongly on the use of two monoclonal antibody (mAbs) treatments for COVID-19, even after they were deauthorized by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new study.2022 January 9, Alicia Lasek, “Use of deauthorized COVID antibody treatments widespread in early 2022: study”, in McKnight's Long-Term Care News
    Synonyms:
    moAb

Synonyms of mab

Forms of mab

Noun
pluralmabs
pluralMAbs
alternative formmAb
alternative formmoAb
pluralmAbs
Verb
third-person singular presentmabs
present participlemabbing
past participlemabbed
pastmabbed

Origin of mab

From Mab (“female given name”).

Words formed from mab

Questions about mab

What does mab mean?
Mab means a slattern.
What part of speech is mab?
Mab can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mab?
The plural of mab is mabs.

Words near mab in the dictionary

  1. maava
  2. maaveh
  3. Maawi
  4. Maay
  5. Maayon
  6. mab
  7. Maba
  8. Mabaay
  9. Mababang Baybay
  10. Mabaheth
  11. Mabahith

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mab (page history and authors); Mab (page history and authors); MAb (page history and authors); mAb (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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