TOP

Definition of marine noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

marine

noun
 
/məˈriːn/
 
/məˈriːn/
jump to other results
  1. a soldier who is trained to serve on land or at sea, especially one in the US Marine Corps or the British Royal Marines
    • My brother has joined the marines.
    Extra Examples
    • He's in the Marines.
    • in the mercantile marine
    • to send in the marines
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMarine is used after these nouns:
    • merchant
    See full entry
    Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun in the sense ‘seashore’): from Old French marin, marine, from Latin marinus, from mare ‘sea’.
See marine in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
Check pronunciation: marine

Nearby words

trait
noun
 
 
From the Word list
Oxford 5000
B2
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day