Marina Definition

mə-rēnə
marinas
noun
A small harbor or boat basin where dockage, supplies, fuel, etc. are provided for small pleasure craft.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
dockboatyardbasin
pronoun
A female given name.
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Other Word Forms of Marina

Noun

Singular:
marina
Plural:
marinas

Origin of Marina

  • Name of an early virgin martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church, Latin Marina, probably a feminine form of Marinus, from marinus (“of the sea"), or a variant of Maria.

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian Spanish seashore from feminine of marino belonging to the sea from Latin marīnus marine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin marinus (“of the sea, marine"), by way of Italian and Spanish marina.

    From Wiktionary

Marina Sentence Examples

  • In associating St Pelagia with St Marina, St Margaret, and others, of whom either the name or the legend recalls Pelagia, Hermann Usener has endeavoured to show by a series of subtle deductions that this saint is only a Christian travesty of Aphrodite.

  • The sea-otter (Enhydris marina) has been destroyed.

  • Galileo was never married; but by a Venetian woman named Marina Gamba he had three children - a son who married and left descendants, and two daughters who took the veil at an early age.

  • Of the newspapers of Havana the most notable is the El Diario de la Marina (established in 1838; under its present name, 1844 morning and evening), which was almost from its foundation an official organ of the Spanish government, and generally the mouthpiece of the most intransigent peninsular opinion in all that concerned the politics of the island.

  • Below it are covered promenades, and from it steps descend to the lower town, the oldest part of which (the so-called Marina), sloping gradually towards the sea, is probably the nucleus of the Roman municipium, while the quarter of Stampace lies to the west, and beyond it again the suburb of Sant' Avendrace.

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