mara — meaning in English
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English meaning
- daydream noun A pleasant chain of thoughts or fantasies that drift through your mind while you're awake, disconnected from what's actually happening around you.
- ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
- mare noun An adult female horse.
- nightmare noun A frightening or unpleasant dream.
Senses
mara is used for these senses in English:
- ghost A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- mare (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.
- nightmare A very unpleasant or frightening dream. [from 19th c.]
- nightmare (now, rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep. [from 14th c.]
daydream — full definition
- noun A pleasant chain of thoughts or fantasies that drift through your mind while you're awake, disconnected from what's actually happening around you.
- verb To let your mind wander into pleasant fantasies instead of paying attention to what's in front of you.
ghost — full definition
- noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
- verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
- verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
- verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.