Marina

proper nouncommon in dialogue

//məˈɹiːnə//

A female given name from Latin.

proper noun

1
A female given name from Latin.
My gentle babe Marina - whom, / for she was born at sea, I have nam'd so -
2
A transliteration of the Russian female given name Марина (Marina).
Marina Ovsyannikova, b. 1978
3
A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
4
A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
As the start-up took off, they opened an office in Dogpatch, and moved into a house big enough for their growing family in the Marina, a pricey neighbourhood where pastel-coloured terrace houses look over the Golden Gate.

Etymology

Name of an early virgin martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church, Latin Marīna, probably a feminine form of Marīnus, from marīnus (“of the sea”), or a variant of Marīa.

Marilyn · A female given name originating as a coinage.Marin · The place name of a county of 252,409 in northern California…marina · A harbour for small boats.

Marina · A female given name from Latin.

marine · Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found…Marine · Of, or pertaining to, a marine corps.Marines · The United States Marine Corps.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.