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messines
nounVery Low
/ˈmɛsiːnz/Messines (or Mesen) is a proper noun referring to a village in West Flanders, Belgium, famous for the Battle of Messines during World War I.
messman
nounRare/Obsolete
/ˈmɛsmən/A person (typically a member of the armed forces or a similar organization) responsible for preparing and serving food in a mess (a communal dining facility).
messmate
nounC1
/ˈmɛsmeɪt/A person who shares meals or living quarters with another, especially in a communal setting like the military, a boarding school, or a ship.
messroom
nounRare/Obsolescent
/ˈmɛsruːm/A room, especially on a ship or in military quarters, where meals are served and eaten by officers or crew.
messrs
abbreviationnounLow
/ˈmɛsəz/An abbreviation or plural form of the honorific 'Mr.' (Mister), used before a list of men's names to denote 'Gentlemen' or 'Sirs'.
messuage
nounVery Low Frequency / Archaic
/ˈmɛswɪdʒ/A dwelling house together with its outbuildings and the land assigned to its use.
mestee
nounExtremely Rare / Archaic
/mɛˈstiː/A person of mixed racial ancestry, specifically one with partial Black and partial white heritage; historically, a person of one-quarter African and three-quarters European ancestry.
mester
nounVery Low
/ˈmɛstə/A dialectal or archaic word for a skilled craftsman, master, or teacher, especially in Scandinavian and Northern English contexts.
mestiza
nounRare
/mɛˈstiːsə/A woman or girl of mixed racial ancestry, especially of European and Indigenous American descent.
mestizo
nounLow-frequency / Specialised
/mɛˈstiːzəʊ/A person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry.
mestome
nounVery Low (Specialist/Botanical)
/ˈmɛstəʊm/The conducting tissue in the leaves of vascular plants, typically consisting of phloem and sometimes also xylem.
mestranol
nounC2 / Highly Specialized
/ˈmɛstrənɒl/A synthetic estrogen used primarily in oral contraceptives and hormone therapy.
mestrovic
nounVery low
/ˈmɛʃtrəvɪtʃ/A surname of Croatian origin, most famously associated with the 20th-century sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
met
nounverbA2
/mɛt/The past tense and past participle of the verb 'meet', meaning to come together with someone or something, often for the first time or by arrangement.
met enkephalin
nounC2 (Very Low)
/ˌmɛt ɛnˈkɛfəlɪn/A specific, naturally occurring pentapeptide (Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met) found in the brain and other tissues that functions as an endogenous opioid neurotransmitter, acting primarily on delta opioid receptors to modulate pain perception and emotional responses.
met office
nounB2
/ˌmet ˈɒfɪs/The official national meteorological service for the United Kingdom, responsible for public weather forecasts and warnings.
meta
adjectivenounprefix+1C1/C2
/ˈmet.ə/A prefix and standalone concept meaning 'about' its own category, self-referential, or operating at a higher level of abstraction.
meta tag
nounLow
/ˈmetə tæɡ/An HTML element that provides metadata about a web page.
meta-dichlorobenzene
nounC2+
/ˈmɛtə daɪˌklɔːrəʊˈbɛnziːn/A chemical compound, specifically an isomer of dichlorobenzene where the two chlorine atoms are positioned at the 1 and 3 carbon atoms on the benzene ring.
meta-ethics
nounLow
/ˌmetəˈeθɪks/The branch of ethics that studies the nature, meaning, and justification of ethical concepts, statements, and reasoning itself.

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