Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flatbottom, roughly circular volcanic crater of explosive origin that is often filled with water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In geology:
- n. A local German name originally applied to certain small crater-lakes in the recently extinct volcanic region of the Eifel, near Bonn, on the Rhine. The craters were believed to have resulted from explosive outbreaks, without emissions of lava.
- n. Technically, any crater which has been produced by an explosion unaccompanied by lava.
Wiktionary
- n. a broad volcanic crater, usually filled with a lake
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water
Etymologies
- From dialectal German Maar. (Wiktionary)
- German, from Vulgar Latin *mara, standing water, lake, from Latin mare, sea; see mare2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sonder om daarby uit te kom, bly die risiko dat die misdaad gestraf word maar nie die (regte) misdadigers nie.”
“Dan heeft ze 1. haar diploma, 2. meer levenswijsheid, 3. alle vrijheden die ze maar wil.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“De reden dat alles nu moet is het mediaspectakel dat een record heet, maar als het Laura's passie en droom is, dan moet zo'n record er naar mijn idee niet toe doen.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“Het is niet alleen gevaarlijk maar ronduit onverantwoord gedrag.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“Dat is een hele prestatie, maar of je dan ook al meteen de hele wereld over kunt zeilen …”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“Ik denk dat dit een verwent meisje is wat beschermd is opgevoed en altijd alles krijgt wat ze maar wil.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“Laura ook, maar dat kun je een kind van 13 niet kwalijk nemen.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“Het was gemakkelijk te verplaatsen in Europa – maar Schengen maakte het makkelijk voor criminelen en immigranten te verhuizen naar andere landen.”
“Satanic politie staat is realiteit in EU-landen, maar ze verbergen het en doen het altijd zorgvuldig de aanvaarding van mensen om hun stappen in de richting NWO politiestaat wereldorde …”
“Ik weet niet wat voor laarzen je hebt of wat je aan onderhoud doet, maar mijn leren schoenen krijgen regelmatig een laagje vet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘maar’.
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 253 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Volcanic Action
volcancellation, mofette, pozzuolana, puy, rapillo, solfatara, canagua, delabrated, efflagration, maccaluba, Plinian, salinelle and 46 more...
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I didn't expect to see THAT letter do...
aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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sourashtra
This list gives the english meanings of sourashtra words. Its language classification is : Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Gujarati. Ethnologue code is ISO 639-3: saz. (
Tu, a, kOn, Kaai, laath, kha, ninji, miski, dhooL, saa, pay, huut and 266 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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over dale
- elevation
dale, valley, glen, holm, canyon, crevasse, dune, arroyo, wadi, gully, gulch, gorge and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for maar.
bhaskar 1) Verb
2) Kill
Example :
vinchuk Hani maar = Kill the scorpian by beat
Kuski maar = Stub to kill
pishLaak maar = kill the mosquito
Aug 15, 2010