Mare may mean any of several things:A
mare (horse) is a mature female horse.Hence also applied to objects called
horses because they resemble an equine, as in
gray mare (compare a
grey female horse)a throw in
wrestlingHistorically, a reference to
incubus/
succubus (see also:
Mara)Walking (i.e. traveling by
shank's mare)Mare (band) is the name of a band from Toronto, signed to
Hydra Head Records.A
Croatian nickname for
Maria, common in
DalmatiaMare is the Norwegian and Danish form of
Mara; in Scandinavian folklore a kind of malignant female demon believed to cause
nightmares As a placename:In geography:Mares Province, a province in the
Department of Santander,
Colombia.Maré is an atoll in the Loyalty Islands; see
Maré Island.
Mare Island (Indonesia), volcano in
IndonesiaIn
Romanian it is an adjective meaning 'big' (sometimes a synonym for 'great'), and therefore, by extension a compound of various Romanian city names, e.g.
Satu Mare ('Big/Great Village'),
Baia Mare (Big/Great Basin) Mare means
sea in
Latin,
Romanian and
Italian, where it enters as a component in balnear place names, e.g.
Ortona a MarePissing Mare Falls in NewfoundlandIn astronomy, the term is used for large features on planets, moons, etc. that look like a sea, even if no liquid is believed to have occurred on that celestial body. In particular, a
lunar mare is an ancient
basaltic lava floodplain on Earth's
Moon, usually inside an impact basin.
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