maine

/meɪn/

name 11noun 1adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

famous, remote, southern

The famous Maine coastline attracts thousands of tourists every summer.

VERB + MAINE

ends, love, part, sank

The ship sank off the coast of Maine during the terrible storm last winter.

MAINE + NOUN

association, gillnetters

The Maine gillnetters protested new regulations at the state capitol yesterday.

PREP.

I spent two weeks in Maine last summer and fell in love with the rocky coastline.

Definitions

name

A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.

A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.

These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.

A town in New York.

A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.

A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.

name

A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.

name

A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.

A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a state in New England

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where

Wiktionary

No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

Wiktionary

The Applachian Trail ends in Maine.

Tatoeba · #3668470

Maine is a remote place.

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Mike Pompeo claims Iran sank the USS Maine.

Tatoeba · #7978850

Mike Pompeo claims that Iran sank the USS Maine.

Tatoeba · #7978859

Usage Notes

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In some senses, maine is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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