Mare vs Maria - What's the difference?
mare | maria |
An adult female horse.
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A foolish woman.
*2007 , Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple
*:The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
(UK, colloquial) (Shortening of (nightmare)) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
(planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
(planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
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* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
* 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
* 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
As a noun mare
is tide (periodic change of sea level).As a proper noun maria is
.mare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mare, mere, from (etyl) mere, . Alternative etymology cites derivation via (etyl) mere, miere'', from (etyl) ), from (etyl) ''markos'' (compare (etyl) march), from Iranian ''marikas'' (compare Old Persian ''marikas'' 'male, manly'), from ''maryas'' (compare Avestan ''mairya'' 'man; male animal'); akin to Sanskrit ''máryas 'young man; stallion'. More at marry.Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* stallion and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)Coordinate terms
* (adult female horse) foal and filly refer to younger horses, pony can refer to adult horses of either gender under a certain height.Etymology 2
From (etyl) mare, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I'm having a complete mare today.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(maria)Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----maria
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria ; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
- By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria .
- I've just kissed a girl named Maria', / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / ' Maria ! Say it loud and there's music playing - / Say it soft and it's almost like praying
