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maar

UK/mɑː/ US/mɑːɹ/ rare

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Origin

Borrowed from German Maar; English usage from 1825, from Vulgar Latin *mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”) and mere (“a body of standing water”).

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