Marion vs Maria - What's the difference?
marion | maria |
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* 1857 (Charles Dickens), , Chapter 1:
* 1998 Fade to Grey : page 132:
(chiefly, US) , transferred from the surname, or by folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Mary.
* 2002 (Annie Proulx), That Old Ace in the Hole , ISBN 0-00-715151-9, page 81:
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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 proper nouns the difference between marion and maria
is that marion is while maria is .marion
English
Proper noun
(wikipedia Marion) (en proper noun)- The name of the captain of the sloop was Captain Maryon, and therefore it was no news to hear from Mrs. Belltott, that his sister, the beautiful young unmarried English lady, was Miss Maryon. The novelty was, that her Christian name was Marion' too. ' Marion Maryon. Many a time I have run off those two names in my thoughts, like a bit of verse. O many, and many, and many, a time.
- "And the name was Marion'. Not Mary or Marie or anything similar? You're absolutely certain about that?" Stacey nodded. "It's not a common name," she said. "I mean I know two Maries and even a Mary though she's older than me. But '''Marion'''. I don't think I've ever met a ' Marion . So I know I've got it right."
- "I spose you want to be a cattleboy," drawled the multicolored beard whose name was Carrol Day, a curiously feminine name, thought Martin, not yet acquaintanced with the bearded Marions , Fannys and Abbys of Texas who, saddled by their unthinking mothers with dainty names, built savagely masculine frames of character.
Anagrams
* ----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
