EGAVE

mare

About 2.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An adult female horse.
  2. noun A foolish woman.
  3. noun 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 (likely a folkloric interpretation of sleep paralysis).
  4. noun A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
    I'm having a complete mare today.
  5. noun A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon.
  6. noun On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
    Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)
  7. noun Obsolete form of mayor.
  8. noun Obsolete form of mair.

Similar words

female horse horse pony puddle pool pond maritime marine sea ocean

Often followed by

and was to island is in of with that

Word family

mares maria

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