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Maria 1[muh-ree-uh] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of Maria 1Shortening of Santa Maria. Maria 2[muh-ree-uh, -rahy-uh; Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish mah-ree-ah] noun
- a female given name, form of Mary.
mare 1[mair] noun
- a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
Origin of mare 1 before 900; Middle English, variant of mere, Old English m(i)ere; cognate with Dutch merrie, German Mähre, Old Norse merr; akin to Old English mearh, Old Norse marr, Irish marc horse. See marshal Can be confusedmare mayor mare 2[mair] noun Obsolete.
Origin of mare 2 before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Mahre, Old Norse mara. See nightmare mare 3[mahr-ey, mair-ee] noun, plural ma·ri·a [mahr-ee-uh, mair-] /ˈmɑr i ə, ˈmɛər-/. Astronomy.
- any of the several large, dark plains on the moon and Mars: Galileo believed that the lunar features were seas when he first saw them through a telescope.
Origin of mare 3 1680–90; Latin: sea Related Words for maria girl, queen, adult, female, colt, mare, stallion, filly, matron, doll, empress, bitch, rib, broad, dame, babe, baroness, petticoat, mistress, noblewoman Examples from the Web for maria Contemporary Examples of maria
Maria Borges, an African model in her second VS show, said everyone back home in Angola would be watching her.
I Got Kicked Out Of The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Nico Hines
December 3, 2014
But her friend, 81-year-old Maria Teresa Falcinelli, has a different point of view.
Barbie Latza Nadeau
December 2, 2014
On a recent afternoon, the head of the Social Inquiry Foundation, Maria Gaidar, received two elderly ladies in her Moscow office.
Anna Nemtsova
November 30, 2014
“This is home now,” Maria Grazia Visconti told The Daily Beast as she walked her dog along one of the “new town” streets.
Madonna, Carla Bruni & Obama Abandoned Pledges To Rebuild L’Aquila After The Quake
Barbie Latza Nadeau
November 18, 2014
Maria Tomak says a colleague presented the document directly to Poroshenko when he met with volunteers on August 21.
Corruption Eats Away at Ukraine Military
Charles McPhedran
October 21, 2014
Historical Examples of maria
“You all’s goin’ to have tea in the Cun’ls room to-night,” said Maria.
Annie Fellows Johnston
Just then Maria put her head in at the door to say, “May Lilly, yo’ mammy’s callin’ you.”
Annie Fellows Johnston
Maria had warned her not to waken her grandfather, so she admired it in whispers.
Annie Fellows Johnston
Why, Maria, if you look close ye can see jes’ where the ants crawl in and out.
F. Hopkinson Smith
Vere is the pretty Maria to go then, vid her silks and her satins, her kegs and her cases’?
Arthur Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for maria maria noun
- the plural of mare 2
mare 1 noun
- the adult female of a horse or zebra
Word Origin for mare C12: from Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German mariha, Old Norse merr mare mare 2 noun plural maria (ˈmɑːrɪə)
- (capital when part of a name) any of a large number of huge dry plains on the surface of the moon, visible as dark markings and once thought to be seas: Mare Imbrium (Sea of Showers)
- a similar area on the surface of Mars, such as Mare Sirenum
Word Origin for mare from Latin: sea Word Origin and History for maria Maria
fem. proper name, from Late Latin; see Mary.
mare n.3
“night-goblin, incubus,” Old English mare “incubus, nightmare, monster,” from mera, mære, from Proto-Germanic *maron “goblin” (cf. Middle Low German mar, Middle Dutch mare, Old High German mara, German Mahr “incubus,” Old Norse mara “nightmare, incubus”), from PIE *mora- “incubus” (cf. first element in Old Irish Morrigain “demoness of the corpses,” literally “queen of the nightmare,” also Bulgarian, Serbian mora, Czech mura, Polish zmora “incubus;” French cauchemar, with first element from Old French caucher “to trample”), from root *mer- “to rub away, harm” (see morbid).
mare n.1
“female horse,” Old English mere (Mercian), myre (West Saxon), fem. of mearh “horse,” from Proto-Germanic *markhjon- (cf. Old Saxon meriha, Old Norse merr, Old Frisian merrie, Dutch merrie, Old High German meriha, German Mähre “mare”), said to be of Gaulish origin (cf. Irish and Gaelic marc, Welsh march, Breton marh “horse”). No known cognates beyond Germanic and Celtic. As the name of a throw in wrestling, it is attested from c.1600. Mare’s nest “illusory discovery, excitement over something which does not exist” is from 1610s.
mare n.2
“broad, dark areas of the moon,” 1765, from Latin mare “sea” (see marine), applied to lunar features by Galileo and used thus in 17c. Latin works. They originally were thought to be actual seas.
maria in Science mare [mä′rā] Plural maria (mä′rē-ə)
- Any of the large, low-lying dark areas on the Moon or on Mars or other inner planets. The lunar maria are believed to consist of volcanic basalts, and many are believed to be basins formed initially by large impacts with meteoroids and later filled with lava flows. Compare terra.
