Noun: marine
| Singular | marine |
| Plural | marines |
Sample Sentences
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He was a marine in World War II.
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He fought with the Marines in World War II.
Nouns inflected like marine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin. See: Middle English Nouns '
marin', Latin Nouns '
marinus', Old English Nouns '
mere', Dutch Nouns '
meer', German Nouns '
Meer', French Nouns '
marine'.
Verbs referencing "marine"
Italian Nouns
marine.