Mars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːz/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Forms: form: Marses
Etymology: From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from older Latin (older than 75 BCE) Māvors.
Senses: examples: text: Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.
text: ‘There’s another one. There can’t be two Marses,’ said Phyllis. / And sure enough there was. A smaller red point, a little up from, and to the right of, the first.
ref: 1953, John Wyndham [pseudonym; John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris], “Phase One”, in The Kraken Wakes, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, published 1966, page 12:
text: Well, see, we’re building a steam-driven solar system from a kit. (Cheaper than the Japanese miniaturized, transistorized models, which have two Marses and no Earth sometimes.)
ref: 1964 November 30, Philip K[indred] Dick, “[To Carol Carr]”, in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, volume 1 (1938–1971), Grass Valley, Calif.: Underwood Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:
text: The planet Mars, seen by Cro-Magnon eyes, presumably was a blue summer world with air and water. Winter Mars, seen by modem man, a red ice-capped desert. Two Marses coincided briefly in his mind’s eye, then rushed apart into endless cycles of Red and Blue … Human fingers intended to halt Mars at the moment of perfection, and hold a whole world there!
ref: 1977, Ian Watson, “Mummy-cloth”, in The Martian Inca, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, section four, page 47:
text: With its Mars-like landscape, visiting Gurbantunggut Desert feels like escaping to another world.
ref: 2018 September 22, Marissa Carruthers, “Five of the best places to go off grid in Asia, get back to nature and away from office phone calls”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2018, Travel & Leisure:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂
examples: text: Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Ares
glosses: The Roman god of war.
examples: text: In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.
text: Mars rode upon the storm of horror and drank his fill of pain and blood. When the Serbian Army retreated before the foe, four times its own strength, it went backward facing the enemy and fighting every step of the way.
ref: 1918, Ruth Stanley Farnam, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia, page 57:
text: A relieved world then will eagerly turn to the task of reclaiming the destruction wrought by Mars ... A tremendous task, filled with infinite possibilities ... A profitable task, according to how well you are prepared to do your part in the rehabilitation ...
ref: 1944, McGraw-Hill, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 145, page 54:
text: The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace.
ref: 1975, Helen Diane Russell, Jeffrey Blanchard, Jacques Callot: Prints & Related Drawings, Issue 21, page 10:
glosses: War; a personification of war.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: ♂
Derived terms: crocus of Mars
Marsling
martial
Martian
plain of Mars