What does MARE mean?

Definitions for MARE
ˈmɑr eɪ, ˈmɛər i; ˈmɑr i ə, ˈmɛər-mare

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mare, female horsenoun

    female equine animal

  2. mare, marianoun

    a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Marenoun

    Etymology: mare , Saxon.

    A pair of coursers born of heav’nly breed,
    Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire,
    By substituting mares, produc’d on earth,
    Whose wombs conceiv’d a more than mortal birth. Dryd.

    Mab, his merry queen by night,
    Bestrides young folks that lie upright,
    In elder times the mare that hight,
    Which plagues them out of measure. Michael Drayton, Nymphid.

    Mushrooms cause the incubus, or the mare in the stomach. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 546.

Wikipedia

  1. Mare

    A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old. The word can also be used for other female equine animals, particularly mules and zebras, but a female donkey is usually called a "jenny". A broodmare is a mare used for breeding. A horse's female parent is known as its dam.

ChatGPT

  1. mare

    A mare is a mature female horse or other equine animal, typically over the age of three or four years.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Marenoun

    the female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds

  2. Marenoun

    sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare

  3. Etymology: [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. mhre, OHG. marah horse, meriha mare, Icel. marr horse, OCelt. marka (Pausan. 19, 19,4), Ir. marc, W. march. Cf. Marshal.]

Wikidata

  1. Mare

    A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse age three and younger. However, in Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old. The word can also be used for other female equine animals, particularly mules and zebras, though a female donkey is usually called a "jenny." A broodmare is a mare used for breeding. A horse's female parent is known as its dam. An adult male horse is called a stallion, or, if castrated, a gelding. Occasionally the term "horse" is used in a restrictive sense to designate only a male horse.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mare

    mār, n. the female of the horse.—ns. Mare's′-nest, a supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; Mare's-tail, a tall, erect marsh plant of the genus Hippuris: (pl.) long straight fibres of gray cirrus cloud; Shank's′-mare, a person's own legs, as a means of travelling.—The gray mare is the better horse, the wife rules her husband. [A.S. mere, fem. of mearh, a horse; cog. with Ger. mähre, Ice. marr, W. march, a horse.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MARE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mare is ranked #50851 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mare surname appeared 410 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mare.

    78.2% or 321 total occurrences were White.
    8.2% or 34 total occurrences were Black.
    8% or 33 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.6% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of MARE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of MARE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of MARE in a Sentence

  1. Horace Rumpole:

    There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

  2. Giusi Nicolini:

    To organised crime it's not important if people make it across the sea alive or dead, but now, without Mare Nostrum, it's as if no one, and not just the criminals, cares if they live or die.

  3. Giusi Nicolini:

    Mare Nostrum was an emergency solution to a humanitarian crisis, so closing it was a huge and intolerable step backward.

  4. Refugees Antonio Guterres:

    There can be no doubt left after this week's events that Europe's Operation Triton is a woefully inadequate replacement for Italy's Mare Nostrum.

  5. Stephan Roll:

    Priveşte: lumina e albă ca pieptul păsărilor de mare

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