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Marye

Marye proper noun: a female given name, variant of Mary.

Proper noun (1)

Marye

  1. A female given name, variant of Mary.
    • This yeare the kinge maried hys daughter Marye to Alexander kynge of Scottes, and he receaued homage of the ſame Alexander foꝛ the realme of Scotlande.1564, Richard Grafton, compiler, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England, […], [London]: In ædibus Richardi Tottyll, signature H.i., verso
    • Miss Marye Dahnke (B.S. 1921) has been made director of the recently organized home economics department of the Kraft Cheese Company, Chicago, Illinois.1925 October, “Alumni News”, in Teachers College Record, volume XXVII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Teachers College, Columbia University, page 170, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Marye (plural Maryes)

  1. A surname.
    • Rev. James Marye, Jr., having been ordained, commenced his ministry in St. Thomas’ Parish, Orange county, in 1761. Here he remained for six years, when, upon the death of his father, Rev. James Marye, Sen’r, (a Huguenot who had fled to Virginia from religious persecution,) who was the minister of...1884, R[obert] A[lonzo] Brock, The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758, […] (Collections of the Virginia Historical Society; new series...
    • THE MARYES RETURN / Burlingame is more than delighted over the news that Mr. and Mrs. George T[homas] Marye are soon to be back again, and this time for good and all, for Mr. Marye, who has been the American ambassador at Petrograd for the past couple of years, has recently resigned his post.1916 March 11, Grace Tibbits, “Ins and Outs of the Social World”, in Ira Berthelot Wood, editor, The Wasp: The Pacific Coast Weekly, San Francisco, Calif.: The Wood Publishing Company, page 6, column...

Examples of Marye in a sentence

  • Marye Anne Fox was the first woman to be appointed permanent chancellor to the University of California, San Diego.2014, E[ileen] S[heridan] Wibbeke, Sarah McArthur, Global Business Leadership, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y....
  • The wording of his will is a little unclear, but a sixth daughter, Marye, married to John Beane, may have completed the family.2015, Ruth Goodman, “And so to Bed”, in How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y....
  • Marye smiled, seeing that it was Theresa, a captain in Marye's original home defense force.2023, William K. Schlotter IV, Exodus to Avonia, Conneaut Lake, Pa.: Page Publishing, →ISBN:
  • James Marye, Jr., having been ordained, commenced his ministry in St.1884, R[obert] A[lonzo] Brock, The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758, […]...

Forms of Marye

pluralMaryes

Questions about Marye

What does Marye mean?
Marye means a female given name, variant of Mary.
How do you use Marye in a sentence?
Marye Anne Fox was the first woman to be appointed permanent chancellor to the University of California, San Diego.
What part of speech is Marye?
Marye is a proper noun.

Words near Marye in the dictionary

  1. Maryanne
  2. Marybeth
  3. Marybone
  4. marybones
  5. Maryborough
  6. Marye
  7. Maryes
  8. Maryfield
  9. marygold
  10. marygolds
  11. Maryhill

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