Meaning of Maine | Babel Free

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1. A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
2. A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
3. A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
4. A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
5. A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
6. A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
7. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
8. A town in New York.
9. A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
10. A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
11. University of Maine.

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Examples

“These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.”

“No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”

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