Maris

Maris [mar-is] Examples noun

1. Roger (Eugene),1934–85, U.S. baseball player.

Mari [mah-ree] noun, plural Ma·ris, (especially collectively) Ma·ri for 1.

1. a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
2. the Finnic language of the Mari.

Origin of Mari Russian mári (not declined) Mari marij Mari, manAlso called Cheremis, Cheremiss. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for maris Historical Examples of maris

It is not a rose, and the ‘Mary’ is from ‘marinus,’ or ‘maris.’

Storyology

Benjamin Taylor

Why do you not pardon me, as you did Maris the blind Chalcedonian?

The Death of the Gods

Dmitri Mrejkowski

Blind old Maris of Chalcedon came and cursed him to his face.

The Arian Controversy

H. M. Gwatkin

Here, as in the cole des maris, Molire turns to the ethics of marriage for his materials.

Queens of the French Stage

H. Noel Williams

L’cole des Maris contrasts two methods of education—one suspicious and severe, the other wisely indulgent.

A History of French Literature

Edward Dowden

British Dictionary definitions for maris Mari noun plural Mari or Maris

1. another name for Cheremiss

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