Definitions

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  • proper noun A female given name; particularly popular as a middle name.

Etymologies

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The French equivalent of Mary; also an obsolete Middle English spelling of Mary.

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Examples

  • DONNY OSMOND, MARIE OSMOND ` S BROTHER: Monday night when Marie was just about to go on stage and I hope I ` m not disclosing something that I shouldn ` t -

    CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2007 2007

  • I dunno, If I really like someone the only way I describe them. .is well. .as themselves ... marie is Marie and crystal is Crystal.

    mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2002

  • On January 4, she was carried to the Church of Notre Dame to receive the Sacrament of Baptism; her eldest sister, Marie, was her godmother, and she was given the name of _Marie Françoise

    The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse de Lisieux Th��r��se 1885

  • DONNY OSMOND, MARIE OSMOND ` S BROTHER: Larry King did Marie a favor.

    CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007 2007

  • Lisa Marie is an uber hottie and the Martian Spy Girl was really the coolest part of the movie.

    Collector’s Edge – ALIENS!!! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • And Klara looked out through the opening at the front of the arbor, fringed with broad puckered leaves, grape leaves of whatever variety of native grape, and she saw the smoke from a skywriting plane, spelling the name Marie.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And Klara looked out through the opening at the front of the arbor, fringed with broad puckered leaves, grape leaves of whatever variety of native grape, and she saw the smoke from a skywriting plane, spelling the name Marie.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And Klara looked out through the opening at the front of the arbor, fringed with broad puckered leaves, grape leaves of whatever variety of native grape, and she saw the smoke from a skywriting plane, spelling the name Marie.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • She makes several comments that are dismissive of the group—how could these nimrods possibly understand where she’s coming from—yet when Coché says that maybe the best the group can do at this point is to acknowledge her “chronic ennui” the label Marie gave it, she is moved.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • This circumstance, which is historical, as well as the description that precedes it, will remind the reader of the war of La Vendee, in which the royalists, consisting chiefly of insurgent peasantry, attached a prodigious and even superstitious interest to the possession of a piece of brass ordnance, which they called Marie

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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