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mare

[ mair ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.

mare

[ mair ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Obsolete.

nightmare ( def 3 ).

mare

[ mahr-ey, mair-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Astronomy.

plural maria

any of the several large, dark plains on the moon and Mars: Galileo believed that the lunar features were seas when he first saw them through a telescope.

mare

/ ��ɛə /

noun

the adult female of a horse or zebra

mare

/ ˈmɑːreɪ; -rɪ /

noun

capital when part of a name any of a large number of huge dry plains on the surface of the moon, visible as dark markings and once thought to be seas: Mare Imbrium ( Sea of Showers )
a similar area on the surface of Mars, such as Mare Sirenum

mare

/ ��ä′�� /

, Plural maria ��ä′��ŧ-ə

Any of the large, low-lying dark areas on the Moon or on Mars or other inner planets. The lunar maria are believed to consist of volcanic basalts, and many are believed to be basins formed initially by large impacts with meteoroids and later filled with lava flows.
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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of mare¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English, mere, mare, maire “horse for riding; beast of burden,” Old English mere, myre “mare”; cognate with Old Frisian merie, Dutch merrie, German ��ä��, Old Norse merr; the feminine equivalents to Old English mearh, Old High German marah, march, Old Norse marr, Irish marc, “horse, steed”; marshal

Origin of mare²

First recorded before 900; Middle English mare “night goblin; incubus,” Old English mære, mare, mere “nightmare; monster that oppresses people in their sleep”; cognate with German Mahre, Old Norse mara; nightmare

Origin of mare³

First recorded in 1760–70; from Latin: literally, “sea”

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of mare¹

C12: from Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German mariha, Old Norse merr mare

Origin of mare²

from Latin: sea

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Constitution Hill fell for the second time in succession as star mare Lossiemouth landed the Aintree Hurdle, the feature race on day one of the Grand National meeting.

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“I have two mares at home, and I’m not sure what I’m doing because I don’t know what it’s going to be like in three or four years,” Sinatra said.

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The 5-year-old mare ran just off the leader and then made her move with about a sixteenth of a mile to go and just got up at the wire.

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Stallion-mediated breeding is the preferred method used in horses for several reasons, one being that it's much easier to analyze a stallion's fertility than a mare's.

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The 5-year-old mare has been campaigned heavily running in her 41st lifetime race.

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