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msg

msg is the abbreviation of message.

Meaning of message

Noun

message (plural messages)

  1. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
    • We've just received an urgent message from the President.
  2. An errand.
    • I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27
  3. (Caribbean, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, in plural) An errand to a shop, a shopping expedition; an item of shopping; (in plural) groceries.
    • On week days he did messages between the house in Carysfort Avenue and those shops in the main street of the town with which the family dealt.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  4. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
    • The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.

See all 8 meanings of message

Noun capitalized: MSG

MSG (countable and uncountable, plural MSGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of monosodium glutamate.
    • “We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”2024 January 2, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing”, in CNN
  2. (broadly) Any chemically free glutamate.

Proper noun capitalized: MSG

MSG

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Madison Square Garden.
    • New Clues Point to Taylor Swift Wedding Event at M.S.G. [title]2026 June 24, Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Maria Cramer, Dana Rubinstein, “New Clues Point to Taylor Swift Wedding Event at M.S.G.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of msg

Noun
pluralmsgs
pluralMSGs
Verb
third-person singular presentmsgs
present participlemsging
past participlemsged
pastmsged

Words formed from msg

Questions about msg

What does msg mean?
Msg means any chemically free glutamate.
What is msg the abbreviation of?
Msg is the abbreviation of message.
What part of speech is msg?
Msg can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of msg?
The plural of msg is msgs.

Words near msg in the dictionary

  1. MSFCs
  2. MSFR
  3. MSFRs
  4. MSFs
  5. MSFT
  6. msg
  7. MSG symptom complex
  8. msg.
  9. msged
  10. msging
  11. Msgr.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: msg (page history and authors); MSG (page history and authors); message (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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