mi
/miː/
mi noun: a syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale. Also the alternative form of mi..
Noun (1)
mi (uncountable)
- A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
- Sometimes syllable for the seventh.
Proper noun capitalized: MI
MI
- Abbreviation of Michigan: a state of the United States.
Noun (2) capitalized: MI
MI (countable and uncountable, plural MIs)
- Initialism of middle initial.
- Initialism of military intelligence.
- Three months ago, after a minor argument between a small group of students and a tea shop owner, police arrived on the scene, arrested the students, and beat them up in a nearby police station. Apparently, the tea shop was owned by an MI agent.2009, Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Toronto: Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 108
- Initialism of myocardial infarction.
- Initialism of mitral insufficiency.
- Initialism of mesioincisal.
- Initialism of mathematical induction.
- Initialism of mechanical index.
- Initialism of medical inspection.
- Initialism of mutual information.
- MI excludes words that frequently combine with many words (e.g. the), but can overemphasize low frequency collocation.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...
- Initialism of middle infielder.
- Initialism of major incident.
Also used as
mi is also the alternative form of mi..
mi meaning in Arabic, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese
mi in Arabic
- third note of a major scale
- مِي mī
mi in Indonesian
- third note of a major scale
- mi
mi in Thai
- third note of a major scale
- มี mii
mi in Vietnamese
- third note of a major scale
- mi
Examples of mi in a sentence
- When I was your age, I could run 10mi in under an hour.
- Languages that use the abessive case include Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Mongolian, and Inari Sámi.
- Here's to yaw an me, an to mi wife's husband, noan forgettin misen!
Forms of mi
| plural | MIs |
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Origin of mi
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Words formed from mi
Phrases with mi
Words that rhyme with mi
Questions about mi
- What does mi mean?
- Mi means a syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
- What is mi in Arabic?
- Mi in Arabic is مِي (mī). See Mi meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is mi?
- Mi can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mi?
- Mi is pronounced /miː/.
- What is the plural of mi?
- The plural of mi is MIs.
Words near mi in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mi (page history and authors); MI (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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