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ALL meanings of mare

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  • noun mare The female of a horse or other equine animal. 1
  • noun mare Walter (John) 1873–1956, English poet, novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. 1
  • noun plural mare 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. 1
  • noun mare female horse 1
  • noun mare nightmare: sth difficult 1
  • noun mare female quadruped: zebra, etc. 1
  • countable noun mare A mare is an adult female horse. 0
  • noun mare the adult female of a horse or zebra 0
  • noun mare 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) 0
  • noun mare a similar area on the surface of Mars, such as Mare Sirenum 0
  • noun mare a very unpleasant or frustrating experience 0
  • noun mare island at the N end of San Francisco Bay, Calif.: site of a U.S. navy yard 0
  • noun mare a fully mature female horse, mule, donkey, burro, etc.; specif., a female horse that has reached the age of five 0
  • noun mare a sea 0
  • noun mare one of several vast, dark flat areas on the moon, Mercury, or Mars 0
  • noun mare an evil spirit once thought to produce nightmares 0
  • noun mare (Slang) (Britain, pejorative) A foolish woman. 0
  • noun mare (obsolete outside dialects) A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare. 0
  • noun mare (Colloquial) (Britain) (short for nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience. 0
  • noun mare (planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”. 0
  • noun mare (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. 0
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