WG

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See also: wg, wg., and Wg.

Translingual

Symbol

WG

  1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Grenada.
    Synonym: GD (for general use)

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Grenada is GD.

English

Noun

WG (countable and uncountable, plural WGs)

  1. (uncountable, pornography) Initialism of weight gain.
  2. (countable) Initialism of working group.

Proper noun

WG

  1. Initialism of Wade-Giles.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veːˈɡeː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

WG f (genitive WG, plural WGs)

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of Wohngemeinschaft (“flatshare”).

Declension

Declension of WG
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die WG die WGs
genitive einer der WG der WGs
dative einer der WG den WGs
accusative eine die WG die WGs

Further reading

  • “WG” in Duden online
  • “WG” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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