Mars
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹz/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Audio (US): (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from older Latin (older than 75 BCE) Māvors.
Proper noun
Mars (plural (rare) Marses)
- (astronomy) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂
- Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.
- 1953, John Wyndham [pseudonym; John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris], “Phase One”, in The Kraken Wakes, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, published 1966, page 12:
- ‘There’s another one. There can’t be two Marses,’ said Phyllis. / And sure enough there was. A smaller red point, a little up from, and to the right of, the first.
- 1964 November 30, Philip K[indred] Dick, “[To Carol Carr]”, in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, volume 1 (1938–1971), Grass Valley, Calif.: Underwood Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:
- Well, see, we’re building a steam-driven solar system from a kit. (Cheaper than the Japanese miniaturized, transistorized models, which have two Marses and no Earth sometimes.)
- 1977, Ian Watson, “Mummy-cloth”, in The Martian Inca, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, section four, page 47:
- The planet Mars, seen by Cro-Magnon eyes, presumably was a blue summer world with air and water. Winter Mars, seen by modem man, a red ice-capped desert. Two Marses coincided briefly in his mind’s eye, then rushed apart into endless cycles of Red and Blue … Human fingers intended to halt Mars at the moment of perfection, and hold a whole world there!
- 2018 September 22, Marissa Carruthers, “Five of the best places to go off grid in Asia, get back to nature and away from office phone calls”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 23 September 2018, Travel & Leisure:
- With its Mars-like landscape, visiting Gurbantunggut Desert feels like escaping to another world.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman god of war.
- Synonym: Ares
- Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.
- (poetic) War; a personification of war.
- In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.
- 1918, Ruth Stanley Farnam, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia, page 57:
- Mars rode upon the storm of horror and drank his fill of pain and blood. When the Serbian Army retreated before the foe, four times its own strength, it went backward facing the enemy and fighting every step of the way.
- 1944, McGraw-Hill, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 145, page 54:
- A relieved world then will eagerly turn to the task of reclaiming the destruction wrought by Mars ... A tremendous task, filled with infinite possibilities ... A profitable task, according to how well you are prepared to do your part in the rehabilitation ...
- 1975, Helen Diane Russell, Jeffrey Blanchard, Jacques Callot: Prints & Related Drawings, Issue 21, page 10:
- The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace.
Synonyms
- (astronomy, astrology): ♂
Derived terms
Translations
planet
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god of war
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Noun
Mars (uncountable)
- (heraldry, rare) Gules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
- 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:
- 4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol. [...] 12. Venus, a Staff in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Cross Pattee, Luna surmounted off a Pall of the last, charged with 4. like Crosses fitched Saturn, edged and stringed as the second. This Coat belongs to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, to whose place it appertains to Crown and Inaugurate the Kings of England.
- 1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry [...] Second Edition:
- George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown. All within the Garter. Above the whole a Helmet suitable to his Majesty's Royal Jurisdiction, upon the same a rich Mantle of Cloth of Gold, doubled Ermine, a […]
- 1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium [...] vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80:
- 8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony. Note, these Ensigns (which are the paternal Coat of his Majesty King George) I have added as an Example, to shew the Form of what foreign Heralds term Tierce in Mantle, ente en Pointe, &c. […]
- 1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631:
- ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.
- (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Iron.
See also
- (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- Phobos, Deimos
| Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Star | Sun | |||||||||||||||||
| IAU planets and notable dwarf planets |
Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Ceres | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Eris | |||||||
| Notable moons |
— | — | Moon | Phobos Deimos |
— | Io Europa Ganymede Callisto |
Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus |
Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon |
Triton | Charon | Dysnomia | |||||||
Etymology 2
After Franklin Clarence Mars, who founded the company that produces these chocolate bars. His surname is possibly a variant of Marrs,[1] itself from Marr with post-medieval excrescent -s.[2]
Proper noun
Mars
- The Mars bar, a brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.
- 1985, Michael Collier, Longest Day, page 206:
- Easily eight foot tall, each was big, brown and glutinous - like giant Mars Bars squeezed and welded into nightmarish sculptures.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
brand of chocolate bar
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Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mars
- A village in Semenivka urban hromada, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Translations
Further reading
Mars, Chernihiv Oblast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
Mars
- Alternative form of Mas
References
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mars”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 521.
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Marrs”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 521.
Anagrams
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