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Definition mare
Etymology 1
From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English m?ere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-Germanic *marhij? (“female horse”) (compare Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), from *marhaz (“horse”) (compare Old English mearh).
Noun
mare (plural mares)
- An adult female horse.
- (Britain, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
Etymology 2
From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-Germanic *mar? (“nightmare, incubus”) (compare Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Akin to Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek ???? (Móra).
Noun
mare (plural mares)
- (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
- (Britain, colloquial) (clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”).
Noun
mare (plural maria)
- (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
- (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
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