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Word entry · 4 letters

mare

Best crossword clue

"Adult female horse"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /mɛə/Part of speech nounSorted aemrStarts with MEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. female equine animal

Word origin

From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”).

Used in a sentence

  • The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
  • I'm having a complete mare today.
  • Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Adult female horse4 letters
02Female horse4 letters

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