English Explanatory Dictionary

mark

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Boundary, land within a boundary.
  2. A boundary; a border or frontier.
  3. A boundary-post or fence.
  4. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
  5. A type of small region or principality.
  6. A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
  7. Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
  8. An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
  9. A characteristic feature.
  10. A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
  11. A sign or brand on a person.
  12. A written character or sign.
verb
  1. To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
  2. To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
  3. To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
  4. To create an indication of (a location).
  5. To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
  6. To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
  7. To create (a mark) on a surface.
  8. To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
  9. To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
  10. To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
  11. To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
  12. To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
noun
  1. A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
  2. Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
  3. A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
  4. Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
noun
  1. A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
verb
  1. Alternative form of march.
name
  1. A male given name from Latin.
  2. A surname.
  3. Mark the Evangelist, also called John Mark, the first patriarch of Alexandria, credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.
  4. The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.
  5. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3747).
noun
  1. Abbreviation of Markarian.

Pronunciation

/mɑːk/ /mɑɹk/ /mäː(ɾ)k/ /maːk/ /maːrk/ /mæɹk/ en-us-mark.ogg /mɑː(ɹ)k/

Word forms

mark marks marke merk marc marking marked Mark.

Etymology

From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Compare march. Cognates * Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”) * German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”) * Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”) * Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”) * Latin margō (“edge, margin”) * Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”) * Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).

Synonyms

observance Mk Mk. heed blemish scar scratch stain demonstrate indicate manifest reveal show signal display write draw trace commemorate solemnize classify mark out destine target represent see characterize typify look at observe watch hear note notice perceive grade score marco Spanish mark Portuguese mark Deutschmark Deutsche Mark German mark Reichsmark Marc Marcos Marko Markos Marq Marque Marcus Mar. Mkr Mrk Mkn

Related words

Marcus Marcel Martin Marcia Marky Markisha Matthew Luke John

Derived words

accent mark airmark atmark beauty mark bench-mark benchmark beside the mark birthmark bitemark black mark blue check mark bookmark brandmark brushmark byte-order mark byte order mark cardinal mark catchmark center mark centre mark certification mark chatter mark checkmark check mark chest mark chop mark claiming mark classmark coachmark combining mark consequential mark cost mark countermark crop mark cropmark cue mark cutmark datemark daymark decimal mark diacritical mark diagonal mark dragmark early mark easy mark end mark exclamation mark eyemark factory mark fieldmark filemark fingermark fire mark floodmark footmark Four Marks fox mark full marks funnel mark gas mark

Translations

Ainu: ナイェ Basque: aztarna Basque: marka Bulgarian: петно́ Bulgarian: бе́лег Catalan: marca Dutch: blaam Finnish: jälki Finnish: tahra Finnish: läiskä (splotch) Finnish: naarmu French: trace Galician: marca Icelandic: far Icelandic: blettur Irish: ball Italian: macchia Khmer: រខិត Macedonian: бе́лег Macedonian: да́мка Norwegian Bokmål: flekk Portuguese: mancha Portuguese: marca Romanian: urmă Romanian: pată Russian: пятно́ Russian: след Russian: отме́тина Spanish: marca Spanish: mancha Swahili: maki Swahili: alama Tagalog: gurlis Tagalog: alaal Tagalog: marka Thai: เครื่องหมาย Ukrainian: мі́тка Ukrainian: по́значка Uyghur: ئىز Vietnamese: vết
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