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mega¹

  • /ˈmɛɡə/
  • /meɪ̯ɡə/

Rhymes with -ɛɡə, -eɪɡə

Where it comes from

From the prefix mega-, from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”).

adjective

  1. informal, not comparable Very large. Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
  2. not comparable, slang Great; excellent. We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.

adverb more mega · most mega

  1. informal Extremely. mega-fun

noun megas

  1. informal A megararity (extremely rare bird for a certain region). And, speaking of relative banalities, the recurring Semipalmated Plover at the Broom Sewage Works may have inured us slightly to the status of the species as a rare vagrant, but it was an undeniable "mega" when one was discovered on Lord Howe Island on 23 March.
  2. The Steinhaus-Moser number ②

Mega²

proper noun Megas

  1. countable, uncountable A town in Dire, Borena, Ormia, Ethiopia.
  2. countable, uncountable A village in Moriad district, Tambrauw, West Papua, Indonesia, on New Guinea.
  3. countable A surname.

phrase

  1. Alternative letter-case form of MEGA (“Make Europe Great Again”). Rather he was outlining the Mega (Make Europe Great Again) project in support of the far right across Europe.

MEGA³

noun MEGAs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Moon-Earth gravity assist
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Mars-Earth gravity assist

phrase

  1. European, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Make Europe Great Again

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: huge, big, gigantic, massive, large, giant, great, large-scale, hefty, major, mighty, spectacular, super, superb, excellent, magnificent

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adj very large

Ελληνικάμέγας mégas

adj great, excellent

Ελληνικάμέγας mégas

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"mega." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mega. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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mega. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mega

Chicago

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BibTeX
@misc{mega_2026,
  title = {mega},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mega},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}