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steven | maria |

As a noun steven

is the voice, now especially when loud or strong or steven can be (obsolete) a time, occasion.

As a verb steven

is (obsolete) to speak; utter; describe; tell of; name or steven can be (obsolete) to call; summon; command; appoint.

As a proper noun maria is

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steven

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a variant spelling of Stephen.
  • * 1989 Ann Beattie: Picturing Will . Random House. ISBN 0394569873 page 67:
  • His first name was probably Steve or Ed. No, there were no more Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    maria

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
  • 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.
  • * 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
  • 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 .
  • * 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
  • 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

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (Maria language) (en proper noun)
  • A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
  • Derived terms
    * Abujmaria

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.