Mary vs Mart - What's the difference?
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* 1821 Lord Byron, Don Juan : Canto the Fifth: IV:
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names :
* 1905 , Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway , Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)
The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
* :
The 19th sura (chapter) of the Quran
Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha.
* :
(Ireland, dated) A middle name for a male, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
A market.
* (William Cowper)
(obsolete) A bargain.
* 1616 ,
(obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To traffic.
As a noun mary
is (gay slang|chiefly|us) a male homosexual.As a proper noun mart is
march (third month of the gregorian calendar) or mart can be mar (march).mary
English
(wikipedia Mary)Proper noun
(Marys)- I have a passion for the name of Mary , / For once it was a magic sound to me: / And still it half calls up the realm of fairy / Where I beheld what never was to be.
- Mary , which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
- For it was Mary'; '''Mary''' / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was '''Mary'''; ' Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.
- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
- Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Usage notes
* The given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.Derived terms
* Marian * Bloody Mary * Mary Ann * Mary JaneCoordinate terms
* AminaAnagrams
* * ----mart
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.Noun
(en noun)- Where has commerce such a mart as London?
- Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .
Verb
(en verb)- To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.
