marine

Meaning of marine

adjective
  1. relating to or found in the sea.
    marine plants
    marine biology
noun
  1. a member of a body of troops trained to serve on land or sea, in particular (in the UK) a member of the Royal Marines or (in the US) a member of the Marine Corps.
    a contingent of 2,000 marines

Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘seashore’): from Old French marin, marine, from Latin marinus, from mare ‘sea’.

Information about marine

Hyphenation of marine

ma-rine

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • marine is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

marine synonyms

Meaning nautical:

nautical, maritime, transportation, shipping

Meaning Marine:

Marine, leatherneck

Meaning of or found in salt water; living in the sea:

saltwater

Meaning water in or taken from the sea:

seawater

Meaning the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its land masses:

sea

Meaning relating to the ocean:

oceanic

Meaning (of a plant or animal) growing or living in or near water:

aquatic

Meaning relating to the open sea:

pelagic

Meaning relating to the sea:

thalassic

marine antonyms

Meaning of or found in fresh water; not of the sea:

freshwater

Translation of marine

Anagrams of marine

airmen, armine, Ermani, Ermina, Mainer, mainer, Marnie, Mirena, remain

Words that rhyme with marine

rine, Amarine, Calciparine, Carine, Catharine, Clarine, Fraxiparine, Karine, Katharine, Larine, Marine, Narine, Patarine, Sarine, Sparine, Tubarine, acarine, acrimarine, aeromarine, alangimarine, alizarine, amarine, antisubmarine, aquamarine, arenarine, artarine, balzarine, belamarine, benzhormovarine, bimarine, bismarine, calcarine, camarine, canarine, casuarine, catharine, cinnabarine, cismarine, clarine, conodiparine, conodutarine, cononitarine, consolarine, coumarine, crotmarine, cularine, curarine, cusparine, cymarine, delphocurarine

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