PG

See also: pg, Pg, pg., .pg, P&G, Pg., and P.G.

Translingual

Symbol

PG

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Papua New Guinea.

   Synonym: PNG (alpha-3)

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English

Etymology

Initialism of parental guidance.

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

Adjective

PG (not comparable)

1. Suitable for viewing, reading, or listening, by minors.
   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     More significantly, rigid deference to Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.

Noun

PG (countable and uncountable, plural PGs)

1. (uncountable, film, Britain, US) Parental Guidance (used to rate motion pictures that may be viewed by minors at their parents' discretion)
2. (countable, chiefly UK) Paying guest.
3. (countable, basketball) Point guard.
4. (slang) Paregoric.
   • 1948, William S. Burroughs, letter, 30 Nov 1948:

     Taking along a pint of P.G. and a large supply of goof balls to taper off.

5. (biochemistry) Initialism of proteoglycan.
6. (organic chemistry) Initialism of propylene glycol.

Proper noun

PG

1. Initialism of Proto-Germanic.
2. Initialism of Persian Gulf.
3. Initialism of Power Girl (“DC Comics superheroine”).
   • 1997 October 25, Lightning, “REVIEW Power Girl #1, uhm, I mean Supergirl #16”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, Usenet‎^[2], message-ID <62tta5$a7g$1@206.230.70.77>:

     Although Supergirl fans will relish page 4, I believe the first panel of 5 says it all: after a full force ramming by SG, PG just casually tosses her into a wall. Now *that's* Power Girl.

   • 1998 May 6, CaptT...@webtv.net, “Re: Why is TV kind of pre-Crisis and comics Post-Crisis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, Usenet‎^[3], message-ID <6iouoe$1jf$1@newsd-134.iap.bryant.webtv.net>:

     Actually, a point could be made that the animated Supergirl is much more like Power Girl than the pre Crisis Supergirl.

     For one thing she adopted the name Karen (Karen Starr was the name Kara Zor-L created), also she wears PG's costume colors and has a strong resentment toward's Clark's overprotectiveness. The only difference is that the animated SG has the Kara Zor-El personality more than she does Power Girl's.

   • 2005 September 21, tan...@bellsouth.net, “Re: JLU - WOW”, in alt.tv.cartoon-network, Usenet‎^[4], message-ID <SL7Ye.4284$xg3.1881@bignews4.bellsouth.net>:

     I kinda hate how they made Power Girl (Kara/SG pre-Crisis on World 2 or 3?) evil and a clone of SG. One of my fav comics growing up was Supes, and PG and I think Green Arrow going after Vandal Savage.

4. Abbreviation of Prince George's County.
5. Initialism of Pokémon Go.
6. Initialism of Project Gutenberg.

Synonyms

• (Pokémon): PoGo

Anagrams

• G.P., GP

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Italian

Noun

PG

1. Initialism of procuratore generale.
2. Initialism of procura generale.

Proper noun

PG ?

1. (dated) Abbreviation of Perugia (on car number plates)

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English PG; the meaning being a phono-semantic matching of English parental guidance, coined by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) in 2012.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpid͡ʒi/, [ˈpid͡ʒɪ]

Noun

PG

1. (film, television) Initialism of patnubay at gabay: parental guidance (television and motion picture rating in in the Philippines)

Derived terms

• SPG

Further reading

• “PG” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.