Definitions for Martian
ˈmɑr ʃənmar·tian

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Martianadjective

   imaginary people who live on the planet Mars

2. Martianadjective

   of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Martiannoun

   An inhabitant of the planet Mars.

2. Martianadjective

   Of or relating to the planet Mars.

   the Martian landscape

3. Martianadjective

   Of or relating to Martians.

   a Martian invasion

4. martianadjective

   Alternative letter-case form of Martian

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Martian

   Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the predominant genre depicting Mars was utopian fiction. Contemporaneously, the mistaken belief that there are canals on Mars emerged and made its way into fiction. The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells' story of an alien invasion of Earth by sinister Martians, was published in 1897 and went on to have a large influence on the science fiction genre. Life on Mars appeared frequently in fiction throughout the first half of the 1900s. Apart from enlightened as in the utopian works from the turn of the century, or evil as in the works inspired by Wells, intelligent and human-like Martians also began to be depicted as decadent, a portrayal that was popularized by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Barsoom series and adopted by Leigh Brackett among others. Besides these, more exotic lifeforms appeared in stories like Stanley G. Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey". The theme of colonizing Mars replaced stories about native inhabitants of the planet in the second half of the 1900s following emerging evidence of the planet being inhospitable to life, eventually confirmed by data from Mars exploration probes. A significant minority of works nevertheless persisted in portraying Mars in a nostalgic way that was by then scientifically outdated, including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Terraforming Mars to enable human habitation has been another major theme, especially in the final quarter of the century, with the most prominent example being Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Stories of the first human mission to Mars appeared throughout the 1990s in response to the Space Exploration Initiative. The moons of Mars—Phobos and Deimos—have made only sporadic appearances in fiction.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. martian

   A martian is an inhabitant or native of the planet Mars, often used in science fiction to refer to extraterrestrial beings. It can also refer to anything related to or originating from the planet Mars.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Martian

   A Martian is a native inhabitant of the planet Mars. Since there is no solid evidence of life there at present, all Martians known as of 2013 are fictional creatures. In science fiction, the term Martian could also refer to a human colonist born and raised on the planet Mars.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. martian

   A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth. “The domain server is getting lots of packets from Mars. Does that gateway have a martian filter?” Compare Christmas tree packet, Godzillagram.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MARTIAN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Martian is ranked #41426 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Martian surname appeared 525 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Martian.
   
   81.7% or 429 total occurrences were White.
   9.1% or 48 total occurrences were Black.
   3.8% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.6% or 14 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for Martian »

1. Martina

2. tamarin

How to pronounce Martian?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Martian in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Martian in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Martian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Martian in a Sentence

1. Kevin Hand:

   To do justice to both units in the time allotted, the team came up with the Martian version of an old auto club-style map, we have our route planned, complete with optional turnoffs and labeled areas of interest and potential obstructions in our path.

2. Nikki Novak:

   They can be monster hits like Matt Damon's' The Martian' or big misses like Jake Gyllenhaal's' Life,'.

3. Tushar Mittal:

   If the moon broke apart at 1.2 Mars radii, about 680 kilometers above the surface, it would form a really narrow ring comparable in density to that of one of Saturn’s most massive rings, over time it would spread out and get wider, reaching the top of the Martian atmosphere in a few million years, when it would start losing material because stuff would keep raining down on Mars.

4. Patrick Whelley:

   Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the sun and made the atmosphere colder, modelers of the Martian climate will have some work to do to try to understand the impact of the volcanoes.

5. Joseph Levy:

   What makes these sites so interesting is that they’re deep holes in the ground, It will take humans or better robots to look in many of the nooks and crannies and flip over the rocks that are the best candidates for preserving signs of life from the martian past.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Martian
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Martian
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Martian
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Martian
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html