Mar
adj, name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A blemish.
"For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels."
- 2 Alternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 Alternative form of mayor and mair. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
- 4 A title of respect in Syriac, given to all saints and also used before the Christian names of bishops.
- 5 Initialism of modified aspect ratio. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) wordnet
- 7 the month following February and preceding April wordnet
- 1 To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. transitive
"[…] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:"
- 2 destroy or injure severely wordnet
- 3 make imperfect wordnet
- 1 Abbreviation of maroon (eye color). abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
- 1 Abbreviation of March. abbreviation, alt-of
- 2 An earldom in the Scottish peerage.
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of Mar (“March”). alt-of
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More examples"That sum of money won't make or mar us."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).
Variant of mere.
See mayor.
From Scottish Gaelic Màrr, probably based on a Brythonic personal name Marsos.
From Classical Syriac ܡܪܝ (mār(ī)), the first-person singular possessive form of ܡܪܐ (mārā, “lord, master”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.