Marten

  

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Marten

Definition: Marten

Marten

Noun

1. Agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels.

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

"Marten" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a male".

Date "marten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Marten

Synonym: marten cat (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Marten

English words defined with "marten": American martenbeech martenCharronia flavigulaFoinmarten cat, Martern, Martes foina, Martes martes, Martes zibellinaPine martensable, stone marten, sweet martentippetyellow-throated marten. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Marten" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (marter, weasel).

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Modern Usage: Marten

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Or The Murder in the Red Barn Maria Marten (1935)

Maria Marten (1928)

Or: The Murder in the Red Barn Maria Marten (1913)

Maria Marten (1908)

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

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Commercial Usage: Marten

DomainTitle

References

  • Marten Transport, Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Revolutionary Rogue: Henry Marten and the English Republic (reference)

  • American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, & Wolverine in the Western United States (reference)

  • Four Caroline Portraits: Thomas Hobbes, Henry Marten, Hugh Peters, John Selden (reference)

  • MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • Remember March (Balthazar Marten Mystery) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Marten

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Marten

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A marten - Martes americana.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

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

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Use in Literature: Marten

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The requisite proportions between the tracked marten and the tracking hound were observed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Marten

"Marten" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.45% of the time. "Marten" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)79.45%5844,427
Noun (proper)20.55%1590,616
                    Total100.00%73N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Marten

The following table summarizes the usage of "marten" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MartenLast name1,00016,437
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Marten

"Marten" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a male".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Marten."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
MartinaFemaleAncient RomanMartin
MartinaFemaleCroatianMartin
MartinMaleCzechMars
MartinaFemaleCzechMartin
MortenMaleDanishMartin
MaartenMaleDutchMartin
MaartjeFemaleDutchMartin
MartijnMaleDutchMartin
MartinaFemaleDutchMartin
MartieMaleEnglishMartin
MartinMaleEnglishMars
MartinaFemaleEnglishMartin
MartyMaleEnglishMartin
MarttiMaleFinnishMartin
MartinMaleFrenchMars
MartineFemaleFrenchMartin
MartinMaleGermanMars
MartinaFemaleGermanMartin
MertenMaleGermanMartin
MártonMaleHungarianMartin
MairtínMaleIrishMartin
MartinaFemaleItalianMartin
MartinoMaleItalianMartin
MarcinMalePolishMartin
MartynaFemalePolishMartin
MartinaFemalePortugueseMartin
MartinhoMalePortugueseMartin
MarsMaleRoman MythologyN/A
MartinMaleRomanianMars
MartinMaleRussianMars
MartinaFemaleScandinavianMartin
MartinMaleSloveneMars
TinekMaleSloveneMartin
MartínMaleSpanishMartin
MartinaFemaleSpanishMartin
MartenMaleSwedishMartin
MartynMaleWelshMartin
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Marten

CountryName
USA

Marten Transport, Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Marten

Expressions using "marten": american marten beech marten marten cat pine marten stone marten sweet marten. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "marten": pine-marten.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marten

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  dr marten

134

  marten house

6

  marten

108

  doctor marten

6

  doc marten

105

  doctor marten shoes

6

  st marten

73

  marten house hotel

5

  dr marten shoes

54

  dr marten footwear

5

  pine marten

46

  fisher marten

5

  doc marten shoes

46

  doc marten discount

4

  dr marten sandal

45

  doc dr marten

4

  doc marten sandal

41

  animal marten

4

  dr marten boot

28

  marten trapping

4

  doc marten boot

27

  marten transportation

4

  marten transport

26

  marten park provincial river

4

  marten trucking

10

  cheap dr marten

3

  marten newfoundland pine

9

  doc marten steel toe

3

  american marten

8

  brothel marten st

3

  marten ricky

8

  campground marten river

3

  marten river

8

  cheap doc marten

3

  discount doc marten shoes

7

  howard marten

3

  st marten hotel

6

  marten sandal

3

  saint marten

6

  8065 dr marten

3
  

island st marten

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Marten

Language Translations for "marten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

marter. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shqarth (musteline, sable), kunadhe (musteline, sable). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الدلق حيوان. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бялка. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(sable). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kuna. (various references)

   

Danish

  

maar. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

marter (marter, weasel). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

mustelo (marter, weasel). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

näätä. (various references)

   

French

  

martre, marte. (various references)

   

German

  

Marder (badgers, martens, skunks, weasels). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κουνάβι (badger, ferret, skunk, stoat), σαμούρι (sable). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מי" (mongoose). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyest (foin, mart). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

musang (civet). (various references)

   

Italian

  

martora (martens, pine marten). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kayt billey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artenmay

   

Portuguese

  

marta (martial), empório comercial (shopping mall). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

jder. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

куница (musteline). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

taghan (the marten). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zlatica, kuna. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

marta (minx, pine marten, sable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mård (marter, weasel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zerdeva (pine marten), sansar (polecat, weasel). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

куниця. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Marten

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

martes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Marten

Derivations

Words beginning with "marten": martens, martensite, martensites, martensitic, martensitically. (additional references)

Words ending with "marten": smarten. (additional references)

Words containing "marten": smartened, smartening, smartens. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Marten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arten, garten, madtan, Maerten, Mairwen, maiten, malten, Maoten, marben, Marchena, marden, maren, maret, Marien, marite, Markeen, Marken, marlen, Marment, marren, marshend, martain, marte, Martec, martenot, Marter, Martim, martinl, martle, Martley, martom, marton, martyn, Marven, Maryen, maten, Matfen, matre, matrin, Matten, Mereth, Mertel, Mertin, meten, mirtin, mitren, morte, morten, mortin, Morwen, M'reen, murten, Naren, narte, parten. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Marten"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "marten" (pronounced mÄ"rtun)
6m Ä" r t u nMartin.
5-Ä" r t u ncarton, dishearten, hearten, Parton, spartan, tartan.
4-r t u nkindergarten, shorten.
3-t u nactin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, straighten, sultan, sweeten, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written.

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

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Anagrams: Marten

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-r-t"

-1 letter: ament, antre, armet, mater, meant, menta, namer, ramen, ramet, reman, tamer.

-2 letters: amen, ante, earn, etna, mane, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meta, name, near, neat, nema, rant, rate, ream, rent, tame, tare, tarn, team, tear, term, tern, tram.

-3 letters: ane, ant, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, mae, man.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: garment, margent, martens, minaret, raiment, ramenta, remnant, sarment, smarten, tonearm, varment.

 

+2 letters: animater, anteroom, antimere, argentum, argument, armament, averment, earthman, earthmen, emanator, emigrant, fragment, garments, lamenter, margents, marinate, martinet, maternal, menstrua, merchant, minarets, monetary, monstera, numerate, onstream, ornament, parament, permeant, raftsmen, raiments, ramentum, remanent, remating, remnants, routeman, ruminate, sarmenta, sarments, smartens, terminal, tonearms, trackmen, trainmen, tramline, trashmen, tyramine, undreamt, varments, waterman, watermen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Marten


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 72 74 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    .-.    -    .    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0074 0065 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476784867180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Names: Derived from
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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