mary

/ˈmɛə.ɹi/

name 7noun 1intj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

awarded, interested, lacking, last, long, low, mean, plain

She was awarded a long mary of flowers at the end of her performance.

VERB + MARY

come, leave, meate, met, name, party

I met Mary at the coffee shop yesterday and we talked for hours.

MARY + NOUN

ayde, blockhead, girl, goodman, haue, herself, ir, john

Mary and her blockhead brother argued about who should do the chores.

PREP.

across, in, into, on, out, with

Mary walked across the bridge with her dog every morning before work.

ADV.

once

Mary once told me that she had always dreamed of traveling to Japan.

Definitions

name

A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew.

I have a passion for the name of Mary, For once it was a magic sound to me: And still it half calls up the realm of fairy Where I beheld what never was to be.

Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;

The mother of Jesus; believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin, and believed by most Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have been assumed into Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intercessor fo

Now the birth of Jeſus Chriſt was on this wiſe: When as his mother Mary was eſpouſed to Joſeph (before they came together) ſhee was found with childe of the holy Ghoſt.

Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably:

And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things: But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath choſen that good part, which ſhall not bee taken away from her.

Synonym of Maryam (“The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an”)

name

A city, the capital of the region of Mary, in southeastern Turkmenistan.

A region in southeastern Turkmenistan.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the mother of Jesus

madonna

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

sweet Mary

Used to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.

Mary Celeste

A ship found empty of all people, in good condition, seemingly abandoned on the high seas; a ghost ship.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Expletive, used in surprise, in disgust, or to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.

Near-synonyms: Jesus Christ; Mother of God; see also Thesaurus:wow

sweet Mary mother of God

Used to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

Alternative spelling of Jesus, Mary and Joseph using a serial comma.

Example Bank

I have a passion for the name of Mary, For once it was a magic sound to me: And still it half calls up the realm of fairy Where I beheld what never was to be.

Wiktionary

For it was Mary; Mary / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was Mary; Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so

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You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me.

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And I pray thee (ſayde Pas,) gentle Nico, tell mee what miſchaunce yt was that broughte thee to taſte ſo fyne a Meate? Mary goodman Blockhead (ſayde Nico) bycauſe hee ſpeakes ageanſt Jeloſy, the filth

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Falst[aff] Fie, this is hot weather (gentlemen) haue you prouided me heere halfe a dozen ſufficient men? / Shal[low] Mary haue we ſir, will you ſit? / Falst. Let me ſee them I beſeech you. / Shall. Wh

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