Mare
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Mare may mean any of several things:
- 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.
As a placename:
- In geography:
- Maré is an atoll in the Loyalty Islands; see Maré Island.
- 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.
Pavel Mareš is a Czech footballer.
In Romanian, Mare precedes various terms in compound words (as in Historical Romanian ranks and titles), meaning 'great -'.
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