MARE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mare mean? 

• MARE (noun)
  The noun MARE has 2 senses:

1. female equine animal

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

  Familiarity information: MARE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Female equine animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

female horse; mare

Hypernyms ("mare" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mare"):

broodmare; stud mare (a female horse used for breeding)

Holonyms ("mare" is a member of...):

Equidae; family Equidae (horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

mare; maria

Hypernyms ("mare" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

 Context examples 

By the rood! cried the fierce man-at-arms, I will see the color of their blood ere I turn my mare's head for the mountains.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maria was wrong, Crawford was wrong, we were all wrong together; but none so wrong as myself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The curricle with its tandem mares was waiting for us outside the cottage, and Ambrose had placed the refection-basket, the lap-dog, and the precious toilet-box inside of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team identified a total of 70 irregular mare patches on the near side of the moon.

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)

Maria's intelligence concluded with a tender effusion of pity for her sister Anne, whom she represented as insupportably cross, from being excluded the party.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Maria, listening anxiously outside his door, was perturbed by his monotonous utterance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Maria thought speaking out of the question, and the gentlemen did nothing but eat and admire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have not seen anything pulled down so quick since I was on the Pampas and had a mare that I was fond of go to grass all in a night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The horse immediately ordered a white mare servant of his family to bring me a good quantity of oats in a sort of wooden tray.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His father would not own himself uneasy, and laughed at her fears; but she could not be cured of wishing that he would part with his black mare.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)