Definitions for Magnum

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Magnum mag·num

Spelling: [mag-nuh m]

IPA: /ˈmæg nəm/

Magnum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in Magnum (agmmnu).

Definitions for Magnum

noun

1. a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
2. a magnum cartridge or firearm.

adjective

1. (of a cartridge) equipped with a larger charge than other cartridges of the same size.
2. (of a firearm) using such a cartridge.
3. Informal. unusually great in power or size:

Origin of Magnum

1780-90; Latin, neuter of magnus large; in reference to firearms, orig. used as a trademark by the Smith and Wesson Co.

Examples for Magnum

Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.

But the raw believability of, say, magnum photography has been done for.

magnum is an entrusted brand, with an irrefutably global reach.

But you must learn the dictation; the great book, the magnum opus, it is there.

Nagrani started out selling socks with designs ranging from a shirt on magnum, P.I. to Winston Churchill.

magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.

Say, Jack, how much brighter the world looks after a magnum!

I'll give you a dinner at the Bertolini to-night, and you may have the magnum of any vintage you like.

It has the punch of that .44 magnum you're presently carrying.

It is his magnum opus in literature, and exhibits wide and laborious research.