Mary

Maryname詞源 1/ˈmɛə.ɹi/

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  A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew.

  • I have a passion for the name of Mary, For once it was a magic sound to me: And still it half calls up the realm of fairy Where I beheld what never was to be.
  • Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
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  lifestylereligionThe mother of Jesus; believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin, and believed by most Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have been assumed into Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intercessor for believers.

  • Now the birth of Jeſus Chriſt was on this wiſe: When as his mother Mary was eſpouſed to Joſeph (before they came together) ſhee was found with childe of the holy Ghoſt.
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  biblicallifestylereligionAny of several other women in the New Testament, notably:

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  biblicallifestylereligionAny of several other women in the New Testament, notably:

  • And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things: But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath choſen that good part, which ſhall not bee taken away from her.
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  IslamlifestylereligionSynonym of Maryam (“The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an”)

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  slangLGBTA term of address for a male homosexual.

  • Note also that male homosexuals will call most anyone Bessie or Mary, e.g. ‘Oh, Bessie, you're a camp!’
  • In America in the 1950s,... Mary was often used in the vocative to address any fellow homosexual (‘Well, Mary...’).
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  datedA male middle name, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.

Maryname詞源 2/ˈmɑ(ː).ɹɪ/

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  A city, the capital of the region of Mary, in southeastern Turkmenistan.

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  A region in southeastern Turkmenistan.

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