Mare
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Mare may mean any of several things:
- Mare is the author of a blog from Slovenia called Maretov blog.
- A mare (horse) is a 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 wrestling
- Historically, 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 Dalmatia
- In Spanish, mares the plural form of mar, means seas.
- Mare 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 Indonesia
- a compound of various Romanian city names, e.g. Satu Mare, Baia Mare
- Mare means sea in Latin, Romanian and Italian, where it enters as a component in balnear place names, e.g. Ortona Mare
- Pissing Mare Falls in Newfoundland
- In 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.
In Romanian, Mare precedes various terms in compound words (as in Historical Romanian ranks and titles), meaning 'great -'.
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