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MARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
Synonyms:
mare; maria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("maria" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Valuable timber tree of Panama
Synonyms:
Calophyllum longifolium; Maria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Maria" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Holonyms ("Maria" is a member of...):
Calophyllum; genus Calophyllum (genus of tropical evergreen trees)
Context examples:
Let the reader add, to complete the picture, refined features; a complexion, if pale, clear; and a stately air and carriage, and he will have, at least, as clearly as words can give it, a correct idea of the exterior of Miss Temple—Maria Temple, as I afterwards saw the name written in a prayer-book intrusted to me to carry to church.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Julia Bertram was only twelve, and Maria but a year older.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"Why should they?" and Mrs. March put the question with what the girls called her 'Maria Theresa air'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Maria Silva was poor, and all the ways of poverty were clear to her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Pray go to see them, with Sir William and Maria.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Belle went with your brother, and John drove Maria.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Was she ill? or was anybody angry with her? or had she quarrelled with Maria and Julia? or was she puzzled about anything in her lesson that he could explain?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
No, Maria, he went on; Nick and Joe won't have to peddle milk, and all the kids can go to school and wear shoes the whole year round.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Maria thought speaking out of the question, and the gentlemen did nothing but eat and admire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Maria's intelligence concluded with a tender effusion of pity for her sister Anne, whom she represented as insupportably cross, from being excluded the party.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
