maine
/meɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
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A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
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A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
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University of Maine.
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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.
Example Sentences
- "These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter."
- "No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]"
Etymology
The US state is from French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name. 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.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /meɪn/
- British English: /meɪn/