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# maria

«maria» in Mova's school dictionary: **Maria: a common girl's name in many countries** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Maria); noun (maria — plural of mare, in astronomy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Maria: a common girl's name in many countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#m1)

2) (astronomy) maria: the plural of «mare», the large dark flat areas on the Moon, once thought to be seas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#m2)

3) Maria is also the name of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, used in old exclamations like 'Sancta Maria!' [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

As a name, it appears in stories and maths word problems («Maria has 5 apples»). In science lessons about the Moon, the maria are the dark patches made of old cooled lava; they make the «face» some people see in the Moon. Phrases: lunar maria.

### examples

- Maria has twelve stickers and gives away five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x1)
- Maria is the tallest girl in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x2)
- The dark patches on the Moon are called maria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x3)
- The maria were made by lava long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x4)
- Maria and her dad went fishing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x5)
- You can see the lunar maria without a telescope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x6)
- Ask Maria to share the crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x7)
- "Sancta Maria!" resounded from the interior. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/#x8)

### note

As a name it takes a capital M. As the astronomy word it is plural; the singular is «mare» (said MAR-ay), not the horse «mare». Trap: the maria are not real seas; there is no water in them.

### In the corpora

- [Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/8/)
- [Every Granny Smith tree comes from one seedling found in Australia around 1868 by Maria Ann Smith.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «maria» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maria/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.