• (RP) IPA: /mɛə/
• (GA) IPA: /mɛəɹ/

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

2. (UK, pejorative, slang) A foolish woman.

• stallion, stud and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)

• French: jument
• German: Stute, (obsolete) Mähre, Pferdeweibchen
• Italian: cavalla
• Portuguese: égua
• Russian: кобы́ла
• Spanish: yegua

• (British) IPA: /mɛə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ/

mare (plural mares)

1. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
2. (UK, colloquial) (Clipping of nightmare#English|nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

• German: Mahr, Alb, Nachtalb, Drude
• Italian: incubo

• Italian: incubo

• IPA: /ˈmɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈmeːɹi/, /ˈmɑːɹi/

mare (plural maria)

1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

• German: Mare
• Italian: mare
• Portuguese: mar
• Russian: мо́ре