Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Roman Mythology The god of war.
- noun The fourth planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 687 days at a mean distance of 227.9 million kilometers (141.6 million miles) and a mean diameter of approximately 6,794 kilometers (4,222 miles).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Latin deity, identified at an early period by the Romans with the Greek Ares, with whom he had originally no connection.
- noun The planet next outside the earth in the solar system.
- noun In old chemistry, iron.
- noun In heraldry, the tincture red, when blazoning is done by the planets: see
blazon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Rom. Myth.) The god of war and husbandry.
- proper noun (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light.
- proper noun (Alchemy), Archaic The metallic element iron, the symbol of which ♂ was the same as that of the planet Mars.
- proper noun a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The Mars Bar, a
brand ofchocolate bar withcaramel andnougat filling . - proper noun Roman mythology The
Roman god ofwar . - proper noun astronomy The fourth planet in the
solar system . Symbol:♂
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares
- noun a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Mars.
Examples
-
VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Buzz Aldrin\'s Mars Vision'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Buzz Aldrin was on of the first men on the moon and now he is pushing for a project that aims at landing "man" on mars, via Mars\' moon, Phobos. '
-
That there will be two mars landers hitting Mars within the next month.
-
That there will be two mars landers hitting Mars within the next month.
Archive 2003-12-28 2003
-
SCOTT HUBBARD, MARS PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Mars Odyssey, then, is the lead off batter in our new team approach to Mars.
-
Why, ole mars 'he done 'greed to gib me fou' hund'ed dollars dis year, an 'I done worked faithful, Mars' Cap'n; an 'now I ain't to have nuffin'! '
-
Moreover, it was to Mars, under his title of Mars of the woods (Mars Silvanus), that farmers offered sacrifice for the welfare of their cattle.
Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome 1922
-
Moreover, it was to Mars, under his title of "Mars of the woods" (_Mars Silvanus_), that farmers offered sacrifice for the welfare of their cattle.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
-
But again, is the mere fact that I can point to interests that would be benefited by not gathering evidence that aliens exist on mars any reason to believe that aliens exist on Mars or doubt our evidence that they don’t?
-
Let me snub the conventional wisdom in Hollywood of never voicing criticism and admit that the movie's producers made a big mistake when they took the exclamation mark off my title "Mars Needs Moms!"
The 'Riffs Interview: 'MARS NEEDS MOMS' author Berkeley Breathed buckles in for Hollywood voyage 2011
-
She suggested the name Mars and the character Mars Blackmon was born.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Megan Smolenyak 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.