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mazer

/ˈmeɪzə/

mazer noun: the maple tree, or maple wood.

Noun

mazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)

  1. (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
  2. (archaic, historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
    • Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a...
    • Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

Proper noun capitalized: Mazer

Mazer (plural Mazers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of mazer

Noun
pluralmazers
alternative formmaser
Proper noun
pluralMazers

Origin of mazer

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”). It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

Words formed from mazer

Phrases with mazer

Words that rhyme with mazer

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Questions about mazer

What does mazer mean?
Mazer means the maple tree, or maple wood.
What part of speech is mazer?
Mazer can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mazer?
Mazer is pronounced /ˈmeɪzə/.
What is the plural of mazer?
The plural of mazer is mazers.

Words near mazer in the dictionary

  1. mazement
  2. mazements
  3. Mazepin
  4. mazepite
  5. mazepites
  6. mazer
  7. mazer bowl
  8. mazer bowls
  9. mazer wood
  10. mazers
  11. mazerwood

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