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# martin

«martin» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small bird of the swallow family, such as the house…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a martin, martins — bird); proper noun (Martin — name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A martin is a small bird of the swallow family, such as the house martin, which builds a mud nest under the roofs of houses and flies south in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#m1)

2) Martin is a common boy's first name and a surname. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#m2)

3) (church) Saint Martin of Tours was a soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a freezing beggar; he is remembered for kindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, house martins, sand martins and purple martins are watched in spring and summer; they catch insects in the air and migrate. In history, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation, and Martin Luther King Jr led the civil rights movement for equality. Phrases: house martin, sand martin, Saint Martin, Martin Luther King Jr.

### examples

- House martins built a mud nest under our roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x1)
- The martins flew south when the weather turned cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x2)
- Sand martins nest in holes in river banks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x3)
- Saint Martin shared his cloak with a poor man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x4)
- Martin Luther King Jr dreamed of equality for all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x5)
- Martin from next door helped us fix the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x6)
- So Martin started off for the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/martin/#x7)

### note

Small m for the bird; capital M for the name. Countable for the bird (martins). A martin is related to the swallow but has a shorter tail; the house martin has a white patch on its back.

### In the corpora

- [Swallows and house martins build cup nests from mud mixed with spit, and a house martin nest takes about 1,000 mud pellets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers/11/)
- [In 1517 Martin Luther, a German monk, criticised the Church for selling forgiveness, and printing spread his ideas quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/10/)
- [In the 1500s reformers such as Martin Luther protested against problems in the Catholic Church, and the Protestant churches grew from this Reformation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/2/)
- [In the 1500s reformers like Martin Luther protested against problems in the Catholic Church; this is the Reformation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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