Definition of Maria

1. Noun. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.

Exact synonyms: Mare
Generic synonyms: Part, Region

2. Noun. Valuable timber tree of Panama.
Exact synonyms: Calophyllum Longifolium
Group relationships: Calophyllum, Genus Calophyllum
Generic synonyms: Tree

Definition of Maria

1. Proper noun. (Hebrew female given name). ¹

2. Proper noun. A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India. ¹

3. Proper noun. A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea. ¹

4. Noun. (plural of mare) (lunar plain). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Maria

1. mare [n] - See also: mare

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maria

margosas
margravate
margravates
margrave
margraves
margravial
margraviate
margraviates
margravine
margravines
margs
marguerite
marguerite daisy
marguerites
mari complaisant
maria
mariachi
mariachis
marialite
marian lithotomy
maricite
maricolous
maricons
maricopaite
mariculture
maricultures
mariculturist
mariculturists
marid

Literary usage of Maria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Also of Gothic was S. Maria del Carmine, but modernized in the seventeenth century (pictures by Cima da Conegliano, Tintoretto, Lorenzo Lotto, bronze relief ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"(3) THE WAR Had Maria Theresa merely been confronted with the problems of internal reform which Charles VI had not attempted, or attempted only to ..."

3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"(1) King, widower, left with one daughter, Maria, dying queen has given him ring—he only whom it fits is worthy to bo Maria's husband. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"She came back in a few minutes with the negus and a slice of toast cut into strips. Miss Maria, her gown turned back, as was her custom ..."

5. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"olim Maria ilia affecta fuerit, cam ut eit in dnm te ilia ... Christum n quidem illud Maria: Scriptum esl, earn Pétri bac Legatione, qua pro ejus Vicario ..."

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