Definitions for Marten

Marten mar·ten

Spelling: [mahr-tn]
IPA: /ˈmɑr tn/

Marten is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Marten (aemnrt).

Definitions for Marten

noun

  1. any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
  2. the fur of such an animal, generally a dark brown.

Origin of Marten

1375-1425; Middle Low German, equivalent to mart marten (cognate with Old English mearth) + -en -en5; replacing late Middle English martren Middle French mar

Examples for Marten

The marten laughed and answered: 'Did you ever hear anything so strange?

His bed was in an attic, next door to his big cousin marten's room.

The blood was running from its throat, which the marten had torn open.

So saying, she was going to push the door to, when she saw poor little marten.

Then addressing the woman: "Poor marten," said he, "feast on the game I have brought."

There were two methods followed in setting the marten traps.

Not long after the marten came by on the look out for his supper.

Then he will return to the Great Lake and trap the marten and the mink.

When recounting her trip to her friend Glen (marten Holder Weiner), Sally summed up her visit to Manhattan in one word: “Dirty.”

However, he is even livelier in the trees than is Spite the marten.

Word Value for Marten
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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