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magnum
/ˈmæɡnəm/
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What does magnum mean?
noun
- A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
- A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
- A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
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noun
- A bottle of Magnum Tonic Wine, a fermented mead drink popular among Jamaicans and other Caribbean peoples for its intoxicating effects, vitamins and use as a purported sexual stimulant. The drink is highly associated with dancehall music and Jamaican pop culture.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmæɡnəm/
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Imperfecta sanitas seu charitas morituri necessario secum fert magnum timorem, tantoque maiorem, quanto minor fuerit ipsa.
Marx's magnum opus, ``Capital,'' added bulk and substance to the theses of the Communist Manifesto.
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“Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quidquam Principio, quod non minuant mirarier omnes Paullatim.”
So drink to our sovereign host And his highly intelligent reign— His health and his bride's let us toast In a magnum of merry champagne!
The magnum opus, perhaps, of the child as inventor, is the lyre, the discovery of which, classical mythology attributes to the infant Mercury or Hermes.