Maria
noun
Maria
1 American
[muh-ree-uh]
/ məˈri ə /
noun
Maria
2
American
[muh-ree-uh, -rahy-uh, mah-ree-ah]
/ məˈri ə, -ˈraɪ ə, mɑˈri ɑ /
noun
maria
British
/ ˈmɑːrɪə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Maria
Shortening of Santa Maria ( def. ).
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In a major suit filed this week, a 26-year-old Texas woman using the pseudonym Maria Puerto is suing under H.B.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
When their matriarch convinces the family to embark on a bucket-list road trip around the island, old family secrets surface as the 2019 protests following Hurricane Maria unfold around them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Edgeworth’s intellectual honesty is one of many reasons to welcome Ms. Smialek’s biography, “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Nobel peace laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado remains in exile, though she has said she will not interfere and hopes to see concrete results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
In the early evenings I did my regular chores at the gas company and late evenings I worked with Mike cleaning the Standard Oil Company, which was located on the outskirts of Santa Maria.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
The close-up image of the Moon's surface includes dark areas known as maria and bright areas known as the highlands.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
In some regions, scarps in the highlands transition into SMRs within the maria, reinforcing the idea that both structures share a common origin.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
"Our detection of young, small ridges in the maria, and our discovery of their cause, completes a global picture of a dynamic, contracting moon," Watters said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
It has a thicker crust, more craters and fewer maria, or plains where lava once flowed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
In between spring storms, Jake’s telescope allowed me to walk down the rills and climb the mountains and stroll the maria of the moon in my mind.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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