Associations to the word «Maria»

Wiktionary

MARIA, proper noun. A unisex given name.
MARIA, proper noun. A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
MARIA, proper noun. A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
MARIA, noun. Plural of mare (lunar plain).

Dictionary definition

MARIA, noun. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
MARIA, noun. Valuable timber tree of Panama.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky