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Marr

Marr proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Marr

  1. A surname.
  2. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5105).
  3. A committee area in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland.

Origin of Marr

* As a Scottish surname, from the district of Mar in Aberdeenshire, itself named after the clan (see also Clan Mar). * As an English surname, from placenames derived from Old Norse marr (“marsh, pool, fen”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 馬 /马 (mǎ), see Ma.

Words formed from Marr

Questions about Marr

What does Marr mean?
Marr means a surname.
What part of speech is Marr?
Marr is a proper noun.

Words near Marr in the dictionary

  1. marquisottes
  2. marquisotting
  3. marquisses
  4. marquisship
  5. marquisships
  6. Marr
  7. marra
  8. marRAB
  9. marrabenta
  10. Marrable
  11. Marraffa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Marr (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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