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What does Mary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Mary? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A female given name.
  2. The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
  3. The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  4. Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha.
  5. (Ireland, dated) A middle name for a male, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
Name
  1. A female given name of Hebrew and Latin origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Hebrew: Bitter, as in a bitterly wanted child. Latin: The star of the sea. Also see Mars, Marilyn, Marina, Marion, Marlene, Miriam, Moira and Maureen.
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Other than the omnipotent one, who betta to ask to help us pray for God's mercy and grace than Jesus' mother, the ev'a bless'd Virgin Mary.
After Queen Mary I died, her half sister Elizabeth ruled the kingdom.
Library commish Mary Dempsey presides over the talk, and there's an accompanying video, Staking Our Claim in Cyberspace.
Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct.
Mary is my mother's first cousin. That makes Mary my cousin-aunt. Judy is my dad's first cousin, so for me she is another cousin-aunt.
Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.

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