Maries

Proper noun

Marie (plural Maries)

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • We are going to call her Marie. For once we are in agreement about something, if for different reasons. I just happen to like the name, it's my second favourite girl's name after Swanhild, it has such a pretty sound. Rasmus, of course, likes it because it can be English and all things English he...1993, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell). Asta's Book →ISBN, page 105

Proper noun

Mary (plural Marys or Maries)

1. 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.1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Fifth: IV
2. The 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18, column 2

   Synonyms:

   advocatrix, Blessed Virgin, Blessed Virgin Mary, Christotokos, Coredemptrix, Deipara, Holy Mary, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, Madonna

3. Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus.
4. Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
   • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:41–42, column 1
5. Synonym of Maryam (“The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an”)

   Synonyms:

   Maryam

6. (US, slang) A 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!’[1941, G. Legman, Sex Variants, volume II, page 1171

   Synonyms:

   nancy, nan

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