Mare

Definition: Mare

Mare

Noun

1. Female equine animal.

2. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MARE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mare

Authority

Phrase: the gray mare the better horse; "every inch a king".

Carrier

Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.

Journey

Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

Adverb: on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:

Marriage

Phrase: the gray mare the better horse; " a world-without-end bargain "; "marriages are made in Heaven "; " render me worthy of this noble wife "; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari.

Bridesmaid, bridesman, best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.

Master

Lord of the ascendant; cock of the roost; gray mare; mistress.

Woman

Hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.

Crosswords: Mare

Catalan (mother), Dutch (advice, announcement, communication, fame, hearsay, message, notice, renown, report, repute, rumor, rumour), French (pond, pool, pools), Italian (sea), Latin (brave, male, man, manly, masculine, of the male sex, Roman praenomen, sea, sea water, the sea), Romanian (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide).

Mare Tranquilitatis -- Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood (Apollo 13; writing credit: Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger)

Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto (1974)

La Mare au diable (1972)

B.D. la munte si la mare (1971)

Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare (1969)

Mare Javun Pele Paar (1968)

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Books

• Beware and Stogie (Beware the Mare , No 4) (reference)

• Beware the Mare (reference)

• Mare for Young Wolf (Step into Reading, Step 3, paper) (reference)

• Night Mare (reference)

• The Mare on the Hill (Picture Puffins) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Civilta Del Mare (reference)

• Intimo Piu Mare (reference)

• Pescare : Mare (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Mare Vitalis (reference)

• Old Grey Mare (reference)

• Tra Te E II Mare (Entre Tu Y M (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Grey mare grazes in pasture with foal lying beside her. Credit: USDA.

Medium shot of a mare and her foal. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

U.S. Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Vallejo, CA. : Nurses quarters. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Bataffche Vrouwin, kust, in deze beeldtenis,... / Le Camus, ad viv. delin. P. de Mare, sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 17 June 1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Bow-on view, taken off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 17 June 1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Trained horses, also, the "night mare" our artist had after sketching them. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oh, the old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be. Credit: Library of Congress.

Il Modo di pescare & navigare nel mare di mezzo giorno. Credit: Library of Congress.

White blood corpuscles, exhibiting amoeboid movements in the external coat of a small vein - from the inflamed stomach of a mare. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was an old, meagre mare, worthy of the knacker, harnessed to a very heavy cart

Then he asked Jack Lawton to decline the noun mare and Jack Lawton stopped at the ablative singular and could not go on with the plural

I have seen a white mare of our family thread a needle (which I lent her on purpose) with that joint

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Minorities

Romania

Such cases have occurred in Negresti Oas (Satu Mare County), according to Greek Catholic reports, and in Bihor County, according to Baptist reports. (references)

Romania

In Decea (Alba County) tensions increased when the Orthodox priest locked the church so that the Greek Catholics could not use it. In Bicsad (Satu Mare County), where the Greek Catholics obtained a government decision restituting a former Greek Catholic monastery, the Greek Catholic Church still could not take possession of the monastery because of the opposition of the local Orthodox clergy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "mare": breeding mare ♦ brood mare ♦ Consolato del mare ♦ de la Mare ♦ flying mare ♦ gray mare ♦ mare clausum ♦ Mare Island ♦ mare liberum ♦ mare nostrum ♦ shank's mare ♦ shanks' mare ♦ stud mare ♦ the gray mare the better horse ♦ Timber mare ♦ To ride shank's mare ♦ Walter de la Mare ♦ Walter John de la Mare. Additional references.

Beginning with "mare": mare-based, mare-collecting.

Ending with "mare": Weston-super-mare.

Albanian

pelë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرس (bolter, horse, steed), ‏الفرس أنثى الخيل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кобила, магарица (female donkey, jennet). (various references)

Chinese 

騋 , 母马, 母馬 . (various references)

Czech

kobyla. (various references)

Danish

hoppe. (various references)

Dutch

paardemerrie. (various references)

Farsi 

مالیخولیا (Hypochondria, Melancholia, Melancholy), مادیان , کابوس (Incubus, Nightmare), سودا (Bargain, Eczema, Hypochondria, Melancholia, Melancholy, Soda, Transaction, Yellowbile), عجوزه (Hag, Hellcat, Trot), جادوگر (Hex, Powwow, Spellbinder, Wizard), دریا (Channel, Flood, Main, Mere, Sea), بختک (Incubus, Nightmare). (various references)

Finnish

tamma. (various references)

French

jument. (various references)

German

Stute. (various references)

Greek 

φοράδα. (various references)

Hebrew 

אתון (female donkey, she-ass), סוסה. (various references)

Hungarian

kanca (foal), lidércnyomás (nightmare), lidérc (cacodaemon, cacodemon, hobgoblin). (various references)

Indonesian

kuda betina. (various references)

Irish

láir. (various references)

Italian

cavalla (groom, stableman). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牝馬 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひんば. (various references)

Korean 

암말. (various references)

Manx

laair. (various references)

Pig Latin

aremay.(various references)

Portuguese

égua. (various references)

Romanian

iapã, coşmar (incubus, nightmare). (various references)

Romany

grasnì. (various references)

Russian 

кобыла (vaulting horse). (various references)

Scottish

làir (a mare). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

more (sea), kobila. (various references)

Spanish

yegua. (various references)

Swedish

sto. (various references)

Thai

ฝันร้าย (คำโบราณ), ม้าหรือลาตัวเมีย. (various references)

Turkish

kısrak (filly), aydaki karanlık düzlük. (various references)

Turkmen 

baяtal. (various references)

Ukrainian

кобила, море (blue, brine, deep, sea, surge, waves). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngựa cái. (various references)

Welsh

caseg. (various references)

equis. (various references)

... aspahe. (various references)

myre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "mare": maremma, maremme, marengo, mares. (additional references)

Words ending with "mare": broodmare, daymare, nightmare. (additional references)

Words containing "mare": amarelle, amarelles, amaretti, amaretto, amarettos, broodmares, daymares, imaret, imarets, nightmares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amaray, amare, amari, amaro, amra, amure, emari, Imara, imare, Imari, maar, mabe, Mabro, macra, macre, madre, mae, maer, maere, mafe, mafremo, magra, magree, magret, magrew, mahre, mair, maire, mairo, Mairwen, maje, Makri, mame, mamre, maore, Marab, Marae, marah, Maraj, marat, Maraz, marb, marben, mard, marde, m'arde, marea, Mareb, mared, maref, marei, maren, Marer, maret, mareu, marey, Marez, marg, margee, mari, marig, marje, marke, Markek, Marle, Marlee, marm, marnel, maro, marpet, marq, marqee, marr, marre, marren, Marse, marsei, Marsey, marte, maru, marum, marv, marvem, marx, Marye, matre, maure, Mave, Mavro, Mavrud, mawe, mawr, Mawrey, maxe, Mdrec, Meara, Mearne, mehre, mera, merde, meree, merey, merf, meri, meroe, merra, meru, merv, meure, Mhara, mhra, mier, Miere, mihre, mirea, miret, Mirey, mirf, mirq, mirri, mirv, moare, moreb, morec, moree, moref, moreg, morej, morep, morev, morew, Morfe, morme, morze, mrake, Mrazek, Mre, mrem, mru, msra, msre, Mtara, Mtare, muer, mure, murre, Murree, Mwari, myar, myre, myrre, Narea, Naren, Narew, narex, naru, Ngare, Omvaree, Umaru. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ream.

-1 letter: are, arm, ear, era, mae, mar, ram, rem.

-2 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, re.

+1 letter: aimer, amber, ameer, armed, armer, armet, bream, cream, derma, dream, embar, frame, gamer, harem, herma, lamer, macer, madre, maker, mares, marge, marse, maser, mater, mazer, morae, namer, ramee, ramen, ramet, ramie, realm, reams, rearm, regma, reman, remap, smear, tamer.

+2 letters: admire, aimers, airmen, almner, ambeer, ambers, ambery, ambler, ameers, amerce, ampere, ampler, amuser, armers, armets, armies, armlet, armure, barmen, barmie, blamer, breams, bregma, calmer, camber, camera, camper, carmen, crambe, creams, creamy, dammer, damner, damper, demark, dermal, dermas, dreams, dreamt, dreamy, embark, embars, enamor, engram, farmed, farmer, femora, ferbam, flamer, foamer, framed, framer, frames, gamers, gamier, gammer, german, gramme, hammer, hamper, hareem, harems, harmed, harmer, hermae, hermai, imager, imaret, jammer, lamber, macers, madder, madres, maigre, mailer, maimer, makers, malgre, mammer, manger, manner, manure, mapper, marble, marcel, marges, marine, marked, marker, market, marled, marque, marred, marrer, marses, marted, marten, marvel, masers, masher, masker, master, maters, matres, matter, mature, mauger, maugre, mauler, mazers, mazier, meager, meagre, meaner, medlar, merman, mirage, moaner, morale, namers, palmer, pamper, preamp, prearm, preman, raceme, radome, ragmen, ramate, ramble, ramees, ramens, ramets, ramies, ramjet, rammed, rammer, ramose, ramped, realms, reamed, reamer, rearms, remade, remail, remain, remake, remand, remans, remaps, remark, remate, remora, remuda, rename, reteam, revamp, rewarm, roamed, roamer, scream, seamer, shmear, smears, smeary, stream, tamers, tamper, tramel, umbrae, uremia, vamper, warmed, warmer, womera, yammer.