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mk

mk is the alternative spelling of m'kay.

Meaning of m'kay

Interjection

  1. (informal) spelling mkay
    • In these tutoring sessions we have found that, when the tutor agrees with the student’s displayed understanding, her signal of confirmation comes quickly after the student’s turn, as in:
      S. Mkay.
      hh. And I know it’s negative, just to follow your thought process, because I know that the sine is...1991, Barbara A. Fox, “Cognitive and Interactional Aspects of Correction in Tutoring,” in Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring, Peter Goodyear ed....
  2. (informal) spelling mmkay
    • C: I want you to re:st (.) re:st (.) as much as you can do (.) is just re:st (.) hhh when >you go< home (.) >you tell< your husband you make dinner honey (.) hhh you take care of me (.) . . . I need >to set< down (.) I need >to rest< (.)
      P: mmkay (.)
      C: and >get down< (.) watch your sodium (.) the...1997: Christina S. Beck, Partnership for Health (dead link)
  3. (informal) spelling mmmkay
    • 1999, “It's Easy, MMMKay.” [title, in soundtrack] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  4. (informal) spelling m’kay
    • I’ll tell you a secret if you promise not to tell anybody, not even the missus, m’kay?1999, Tom Bradley, Black Class Cur http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Fdo3ky2yq-sC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&sig=PGLARdInWR86z9kI3MQaQKe5G9s
  5. (informal) spelling mm-kay
    • She didn’t ask what that was supposed to mean, but tallied a while on her fingertips and obliged him.
      “Mm-kay, bye.”2000, Tom Bradley, Hustling the East http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=GYnGE49yhPsC&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&sig=JIS7zjR3YOAzjIW-jrKuyOrxpQM
  6. (informal) spelling mmm-kay
    • “Well, I’m going to take a picture of your arm and then this nice doctor is going to fix it for you, okay?”
      “Mmm-kay.”2005, Michael Collins, Hot Lights, Cold Steel

Proper noun capitalized: MK

MK (countable and uncountable, plural MKs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Milton Keynes: a borough in Buckinghamshire, England; also the first part of the postcode for the area.
    • Marland added: "We will look at bidding for the HQ, but the language being used indicates that already-successful places like MK need not apply.2021 October 20, Tony Streeter, “Location of GBR's new HQ to be decided by competition”, in RAIL, number 942, page 16
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Mong Kok.
  3. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of Mortal Kombat.
  4. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of Mario Kart.
  5. (South-African, abbreviation) Abbreviation of uMkhonto weSizwe.
    • Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.2024 May 30, Sarah Dean, David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 May 2024
    • His MK party, named after the ANC’s former armed wing, appears to have achieved just that – formed just five months ago, it is now the third-largest party in South Africa, receiving almost 15% of the vote.2024 June 5, Sarah Dean, David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28...
  6. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Mebyon Kernow.

Noun (1) capitalized: MK

MK (plural MKs or MK's)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Member of Knesset.
    • A simple majority of 61 MKs will be able to do whatever it wants without any checks and balances.2024, David Golinkin, “The Proposed "Judicial Revolution" In Israel: What Can We Learn From Our Sources?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 256
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of mooseknuckle.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of missionary's kid.
    • A significant sector of the Global Nomad population is represented by the 'missionary kids' or 'MK's'.2001, Mary Haden, Jeff Thompson, International education: principles and practice, page 31

Noun (2) capitalized: Mk

Mk

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of mark (a particular make or model).

Forms of mk

Proper noun
pluralMKs
Noun
pluralMKs
pluralMK's
alternative formMk.

Questions about mk

What is mk the alternative spelling of?
Mk is the alternative spelling of m'kay.
What part of speech is mk?
Mk can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near mk in the dictionary

  1. Mjölnir
  2. Mjølfjell
  3. Mjølner
  4. Mjølnir
  5. Mjøsa
  6. mk
  7. MK's
  8. mk.
  9. MK6
  10. MK64
  11. MK7

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mk (page history and authors); MK (page history and authors); Mk (page history and authors); m'kay (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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