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ng

/əŋ/

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ng is the initialism of newsgroup.

Meaning of newsgroup

Noun

newsgroup (plural newsgroups)

  1. A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
    • “Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.1998 November, Tim Somheil, chapter 6, in Hostile Proximity (The Executioner; 239), Toronto, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 75

Noun capitalized: NG

NG (countable and uncountable, plural NGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of natural gas.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of nitroglycerine (nitroglycerin).
  3. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of newsgroup.
    • Could someone please re-post the FAQ to the NG?
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of narrow gauge.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of necrotizing gingivitis.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that causes gonorrhea
    • Pharyngeal NG infections can contribute to the sustained transmission of gonorrhea as pharyngeal infections are often asymptomatic, can persists, and remain undiagnosed.2026 April 3, Amber D. Kimble, Yukari C. Manabe, Johan H. Melendez, “Evidence-Based Assessment of the Role of Pharyngeal Gonorrhea and Commensal Neisseria Species in the Emergence of Antimicrobial...

Adjective capitalized: NG

NG (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of no good or no go.
    • For instance M'Auley's down there: n. g. as position. Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattle market to the quays value would go up like a shot.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 4: Calypso]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 56
    Synonyms:
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  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of nasogastric.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of next-generation

Proper noun (1) capitalized: NG

NG

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Newgrounds.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of National Geographic.
  3. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of New Guinea

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ng

Ng (plural Ngs)

  1. A surname from Hokkien
  2. A surname from Cantonese

Synonyms of ng

Forms of ng

Noun
pluralNGs
Proper noun
pluralNgs

Origin of ng

Abbreviation. * no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).

From various Chinese surnames, including: * Hokkien 黃 /黄 (N̂g) * Cantonese 吳 /吴 (ng⁴) and 伍 (ng⁵) The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog ng.

Phrases with ng

Words that rhyme with ng

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Questions about ng

What does ng mean?
Ng means a surname from Hokkien.
What is ng the initialism of?
Ng is the initialism of newsgroup.
What part of speech is ng?
Ng can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ng?
Ng is pronounced /əŋ/.
What is the plural of ng?
The plural of ng is NGs.

Words near ng in the dictionary

  1. NFTs
  2. NFU
  3. NFV
  4. NFZ
  5. NFZs
  6. ng
  7. NG+
  8. nga
  9. nga-pee
  10. Ngaanyatjara
  11. Ngaanyatjarra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ng (page history and authors); NG (page history and authors); Ng (page history and authors); newsgroup (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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