Standard Lemma guide

mars

name · noun · verb · 16 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːz/
  • General-American: /ˈmɑɹz/
  • rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)z
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /maɹs/
  • /mɑ˞s/
  • CMU ARPABET: M AA1 R Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Examples

  • Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

The Roman god of war.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Roman, uncountable, usually

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

Examples

  • Near-synonym: Ares (Greek counterpart)
  • Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Ares

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

War, personified.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, poetic, usually

Qualifier: plural Marses

Examples

  • In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

A village in Semenivka urban hromada, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

name

Meaning 7

Initialism of Military Auxiliary Radio System.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

name

Meaning 8

Acronym of Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

plural of mar

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Gules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, uncountable

Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Iron.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

Topics: alchemy, chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, pseudoscience

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Alternative form of Mas.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Abbreviation of multicast address resolution server.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

third-person singular simple present indicative of mar

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Mars has two satellites

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Red Planet

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: superior planet, terrestrial planet

16

noun

Meaning 16

(Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Roman deity

History

Etymology

From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from Old Latin Māvors.

Possibly a variant of Marrs, itself from Marr with post-medieval excrescent -s. The Mars bar was named after Franklin Clarence Mars, who founded the company that produces these chocolate bars.

Borrowed from Ukrainian Марс (Mars).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Across languages

Translations

313 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: Марс — planet
  • Afrikaans: Mars — planet
  • Albanian: Marsi — planet
  • Albanian: Mars — planet
  • Amharic: ማርስ (mars) — planet
  • Arabic: الْمِرِّيخ (al-mirrīḵ) — planet
  • Arabic: المريخ (il-marrīḵ) — planet
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ (nirgāl) — planet
  • Armenian: Մարս — planet
  • Armenian: Հրատ (Hrat) — planet
  • Assamese: মঙ্গল (moṅgol) — planet
  • Asturian: Marte — planet
  • Azerbaijani: Mars — planet
  • Azerbaijani: Mərrix — planet
  • Bashkir: Марс — planet
  • Basque: Martitz — planet
  • Belarusian: Марс — planet
  • Bengali: মঙ্গল (moṅgol) — planet
  • Breton: Meurzh — planet
  • Bulgarian: Марс — planet
  • Burmese: အင်္ဂါ (angga) — planet
  • Carpathian Rusyn: Марс — planet
  • Catalan: Mart — planet
  • Chechen: Марс — planet
  • Cherokee: ᎹᏏ (masi) — planet
  • Chinese Cantonese: 火星 — planet
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 火星 (Huŏ-sĭng) — planet
  • Hakka Chinese: 火星 (Fó-sên) — planet
  • Chinese: 火星 (hóe-chhen, hé-chhin) — planet
  • Chinese Mandarin: 火星 (Huǒxīng) — planet
  • Wu Chinese: 火星 (5hu-shin) — planet
  • Chuvash: Марс — planet
  • Coptic: ⲙⲟⲗⲟⲭ (molokh) — planet
  • Cornish: Meurth — planet
  • Corsican: Marte — planet
  • Crimean Tatar: Merih — planet
  • Czech: Mars — planet
  • Danish: Mars — planet
  • Dutch: Mars — planet
  • Dzongkha: མིག་དམར (mig dmar) — planet
  • Esperanto: Marso — planet
  • Estonian: Marss — planet
  • Fijian: Aceni — planet
  • Finnish: Mars — planet
  • French: Mars — planet
  • West-Frisian: Mars — planet
  • Galician: Marte — planet
  • Georgian: მარსი (marsi) — planet
  • German: Mars — planet
  • Greek: Άρης (Áris) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Τόλμα (Tólma) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Πυρόεις (Puróeis) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Ηρακλής (Ēraklḗs) — planet
  • Paraguayan Guarani: Mbyja Pytã — planet
  • Gujarati: મંગળ (maṅgaḷ) — planet
  • Haitian Creole: Mas — planet
  • Hawaiian: Hōkūʻula — planet
  • Hebrew: מַאֲדִים (ma’adim) — planet
  • Hindi: मंगल (maṅgal) — planet
  • Hindi: अंगारक (aṅgārak) — planet
  • Hindi: रुधिर (rudhir) — planet
  • Hungarian: Mars — planet
  • Icelandic: Mars — planet
  • Ido: Marso — planet
  • Indonesian: Marikh — planet
  • Indonesian: Mars — planet
  • Interlingua: Marte — planet
  • Irish: Mars — planet
  • Irish: Máirt — planet
  • Italian: Marte — planet
  • Jamaican Creole: Maarz — planet
  • Japanese: 火星 (Kasei) — planet
  • Japanese: マーズ (Māzu) — planet
  • Japanese: マース (Māsu) — planet
  • Japanese: マルス (Marusu) — planet
  • Javanese: jaka bèlèk — planet
  • Javanese: Mars — planet
  • Javanese: Anggara — planet
  • Kalmyk: Мигмр (Migmr) — planet
  • Kannada: ಮಂಗಳ (maṅgaḷa) — planet
  • Kashubian: Mars — planet
  • Kazakh: Қызылжұлдыз (Qyzyljūldyz) — planet
  • Kazakh: Аңырақай (Añyraqai) — planet
  • Kazakh: Марс — planet
  • Khmer: អង្គារ (ʼɑɑʼɑngkiə) — planet
  • Klamath-Modoc: taktakl̓i — planet
  • Kodava: ಚೌವ (cauva) — planet
  • Korean: 화성 (Hwaseong) — planet
  • Central Kurdish: بارام (baram) — planet
  • Central Kurdish: بەھرام (behram) — planet
  • Central Kurdish: مەریخ (merîx) — planet
  • Northern Kurdish: Behram — planet
  • Northern Kurdish: Mars — planet
  • Northern Kurdish: Merîx — planet
  • Kyrgyz: Марс — planet
  • Lao: ອັງຄານ (ʼang khān) — planet
  • Lao: ດາວອັງຄານ (dāo ʼang khān) — planet
  • Latin: Mārs — planet
  • Latvian: Marss — planet
  • Lingala: Malasí — planet
  • Lingala: Marsí — planet
  • Lithuanian: Marsas — planet
  • Lithuanian: Žiezdrė — planet
  • : ᦡᦱᧁᦺᦝ (ḋaawfay) — planet
  • Macedonian: Марс — planet
  • Malagasy: Marsa — planet
  • Malay: Marikh — planet
  • Malay: Mars — planet
  • Malayalam: ചൊവ്വ (covva) — planet
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: mehqahtuwet — planet
  • Maltese: Mars — planet
  • Maltese: Marte — planet
  • Manchu: ᡨᡠᠸᠠ ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (tuwa usiha) — planet
  • Manx: Mart — planet
  • Māori: Matawhero — planet
  • Māori: Tūmatauenga — planet
  • Marathi: मंगळ (maṅgaḷ) — planet
  • Mongolian: Ангараг (Angarag) — planet
  • Mongolian: Марс — planet
  • Mongolian: ᠠᠩᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ (angɣaraɣ) — planet
  • Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠷᠰ (mars) — planet
  • Nahuatl: Chīchīlcītlalpol — planet
  • Nahuatl: Huītzilōpōchcītlalli — planet
  • Navajo: Máaz — planet
  • Nepali: मङ्गल (maṅgala) — planet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mars — planet
  • Occitan: Mart — planet
  • Odia: ମଙ୍ଗଳ (maṅgaḷa) — planet
  • Church Slavic: Арисъ (Arisŭ) — planet
  • Old Norse: þrekstjarna — planet
  • Ossetian: Марс — planet
  • Pashto: مريخ (marix) — planet
  • Dari: مِرِّیخ (mirrīx) — planet
  • Dari: بَهْرَام (bahrām) — planet
  • Dari: مَارْس (mārs) — planet
  • Iranian Persian: مِرّیخ (merrix) — planet
  • Iranian Persian: بَهْرام (bahrâm) — planet
  • Iranian Persian: مارْس (mârs) — planet
  • Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭 — planet
  • Polish: Mars — planet
  • Portuguese: Marte — planet
  • Punjabi: ਮੰਗਲ (maṅgal) — planet
  • Quechua: Awqakuq — planet
  • Quechua: Atich'aska — planet
  • Romanian: Маrte — planet
  • Russian: Марс — planet
  • Sanskrit: मङ्गल (maṅgala) — planet
  • Sanskrit: रुधिर (rudhira) — planet
  • Santali: ᱴᱤᱨᱟᱹ ᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ (ṭiră ẽgel) — planet
  • Scottish Gaelic: Màrs — planet
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ма̏рс — planet
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mȁrs — planet
  • Shona: Murongazuva — planet
  • Shona: Mrongazuva — planet
  • Silesian: Mars — planet
  • Sinhalese: අඟහරු (angaharu) — planet
  • Slovak: Mars — planet
  • Slovene: Márs — planet
  • Somali: Farraare — planet
  • Upper Sorbian: Mars — planet
  • Spanish: Marte — planet
  • Swahili: Mirihi — planet
  • Swahili: Meriki — planet
  • Swedish: Mars — planet
  • Tagalog: Marte — planet
  • Tajik: Миррих (Mirrix) — planet
  • Tajik: Баҳром (Bahrom) — planet
  • Tamil: செவ்வாய் (cevvāy) — planet
  • Tatar: Марс — planet
  • Tatar: Мәрих (Märix) — planet
  • Telugu: అంగారకుడు (aṅgārakuḍu) — planet
  • Telugu: రుధిరుడు (rudhiruḍu) — planet
  • Thai: ดาวอังคาร (daao ang-kaan) — planet
  • Thai: อังคาร (ang-kaan) — planet
  • Tibetan: མིག་དམར (mig dmar) — planet
  • Tok Pisin: Mas — planet
  • Tongan: Maʻasi — planet
  • Tswana: Mase — planet
  • Tumbuka: Chivuvuzi — planet
  • Tumbuka: Chanya la Chivuvuzi — planet
  • Turkish: Mars — planet
  • Turkish: Kızıl Gezegen — planet
  • Turkish: Kızıldız — planet
  • Turkish: Bakırsokum — planet
  • Turkish: Merih — planet
  • Turkish: Sakıt — planet
  • Turkmen: Mars — planet
  • Turkmen: Myrryh — planet
  • Ukrainian: Марс — planet
  • Unami: màxkalànkw — planet
  • Urdu: مِرِّیخ (mirrīx) — planet
  • Urdu: مَن٘گَل (maṅgal) — planet
  • Urdu: بَہْرام (bahrām) — planet
  • Urdu: جَلّادِ فَلَک (jallād-i falak) — planet
  • Uyghur: مارس (mars) — planet
  • Uyghur: مېرىخ (mërix) — planet
  • Uzbek: Mars — planet
  • Uzbek: Mirrix — planet
  • Venetan: Marte — planet
  • Vietnamese: sao Hoả — planet
  • Vietnamese: Hoả tinh — planet
  • Volapük: Mard — planet
  • Welsh: Mawrth — planet
  • Wolof: Maas — planet
  • Yiddish: מאַדים (madim) — planet
  • Yiddish: מאַרס (mars) — planet
  • Yoruba: Mársì — planet
  • Zhuang: Ndaundeiqfeiz — planet
  • Zulu: uMasi — planet
  • Zulu: uNotshezi — planet
  • Afrikaans: Mars — god of war
  • Arabic: مَارِس (māris) — god of war
  • Armenian: Մարս — god of war
  • Asturian: Marte — god of war
  • Azerbaijani: Mars — god of war
  • Basque: Martitz — god of war
  • Belarusian: Марс — god of war
  • Bengali: মার্স (marśo) — god of war
  • Bulgarian: Марс — god of war
  • Catalan: Mart — god of war
  • Cherokee: ᎹᏏ (masi) — god of war
  • Chinese Cantonese: 戰神 /战神 (zin3 san4) — god of war
  • Chinese Cantonese: 瑪斯 /玛斯 — god of war
  • Chinese Mandarin: 戰神 /战神 (Zhànshén) — god of war
  • Chinese Mandarin: 瑪爾斯 /玛尔斯 (Mǎ'ěrsī) — god of war
  • Cornish: Meurth — god of war
  • Czech: Mars — god of war
  • Danish: Mars — god of war
  • Dutch: Mars — god of war
  • Esperanto: Marso — god of war
  • Estonian: Mars — god of war
  • Faroese: Mars — god of war
  • Finnish: Mars — god of war
  • French: Mars — god of war
  • Galician: Marte — god of war
  • Georgian: მარსი (marsi) — god of war
  • German: Mars — god of war
  • Greek: Άρης (Áris) — god of war
  • Hawaiian: Maleka — god of war
  • Hebrew: מארס \ מַרְס (mars) — god of war
  • Hindi: मार्स (mārs) — god of war
  • Hindi: मंगल (maṅgal) — god of war
  • Hungarian: Mars — god of war
  • Icelandic: Mars — god of war
  • Indonesian: Mars — god of war
  • Irish: Mars — god of war
  • Italian: Marte — god of war
  • Japanese: マールス (Mārusu) — god of war
  • Kazakh: Марс — god of war
  • Khmer: អង្គារ (ʼɑɑʼɑngkiə) — god of war
  • Korean: 마르스 (Mareuseu) — god of war
  • Central Kurdish: بارام (baram) — god of war
  • Northern Kurdish: Mars — god of war
  • Kyrgyz: Марс — god of war
  • Latin: Mārs — god of war
  • Latvian: Marss — god of war
  • Lithuanian: Marsas — god of war
  • Macedonian: Марс — god of war
  • Maltese: Marte — god of war
  • Marathi: मार्स (mārsa) — god of war
  • Mongolian: Марс — god of war
  • Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠷᠰ (mars) — god of war
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mars — god of war
  • Church Slavic: Арисъ (Arisŭ) — god of war
  • Dari: مَارْس (mārs) — god of war
  • Iranian Persian: مارْس (mârs) — god of war
  • Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭 — god of war
  • Polish: Mars — god of war
  • Portuguese: Marte — god of war
  • Romanian: Маrte — god of war
  • Russian: Марс — god of war
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ма̏рс — god of war
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mȁrs — god of war
  • Slovene: Márs — god of war
  • Spanish: Marte — god of war
  • Swahili: Maazi — god of war
  • Swedish: Mars — god of war
  • Tagalog: Marte — god of war
  • Tajik: Марс — god of war
  • Tajik: Баҳром (Bahrom) — god of war
  • Thai: มาร์ส — god of war
  • Turkish: Mars — god of war
  • Turkmen: Mars — god of war
  • Ukrainian: Марс — god of war
  • Urdu: مارْس (mārs) — god of war
  • Uzbek: Mars — god of war
  • Vietnamese: thần chiến tranh — god of war
  • Welsh: Mawrth — god of war
  • Yiddish: מאַרס (mars) — god of war
  • Zulu: uMasi — god of war
  • Armenian: Մարս — brand of chocolate bar
  • Bulgarian: Марс — brand of chocolate bar
  • Chinese Mandarin: 瑪氏巧克力棒 /玛氏巧克力棒 (Mǎshì qiǎokèlìbàng) — brand of chocolate bar
  • Czech: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Dutch: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Estonian: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Faroese: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Finnish: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • French: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • German: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Hebrew: מארס (mars) — brand of chocolate bar
  • Hindi: मार्स (mārs) — brand of chocolate bar
  • Hungarian: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Italian: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Korean: 마즈 (Majeu) — brand of chocolate bar
  • Latvian: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Macedonian: Марс — brand of chocolate bar
  • Marathi: मार्स (mārsa) — brand of chocolate bar
  • Polish: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Romanian: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Russian: Марс — brand of chocolate bar
  • Swedish: Mars — brand of chocolate bar
  • Ukrainian: Марс — village in Semenivka, Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv, Ukraine