English Explanatory Dictionary

Maine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
  2. A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
  3. A town in New York.
  4. A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
  5. A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
  6. University of Maine.
name
  1. A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
name
  1. A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
  2. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
name
  1. A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
name
  1. A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
name
  1. Alternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of main.
adj
  1. Obsolete form of main.

Pronunciation

/mɛn/ /meɪn/ en-us-Maine.ogg /mɛːn/

Word forms

Maine maines

Etymology

The US state is from French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name; unrelated to the name of the river that flows through it. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.

Derived words

Bas-Maine Haut-Maine Maine Coon Mainer Mainiot Mainiote ME Maine-et-Loire Castlemaine

Translations

Arabic: مِين Bulgarian: Мейн Chinese Mandarin: 緬因州 /缅因州 Czech: Maine Danish: Maine Dutch: Maine Esperanto: Majno Finnish: Maine French: Maine Galician: Maine Georgian: მენი German: Maine (US-Bundesstaat) Greek: Μέιν Hindi: मेन Italian: Maine Japanese: メイン州 Khmer: មេន Korean: 메인 Lao: ເມນ Latin: Cenomannica Latvian: Meina Macedonian: Мејн Marathi: मेन Navajo: Méíin hahoodzo Occitan: Maine Polish: Maine Portuguese: Maine Russian: Мэн Spanish: Maine Swedish: Maine Thai: เมน Turkish: Maine Ukrainian: Мен Yiddish: מעין
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