marse
/mɑː(ɹ)s/obsolete
marse is a noun meaning “Alternative form of master, often used as a general title of respect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-R-S-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Marse, the name). The plural of marse is marses.
What does marse mean?
noun
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USobsoleteAlternative form of master, often used as a general title of respect.
I followed old Marse Robert for four year near about / Got wounded in three place and starved at Point Lookout
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce marse?
- /mɑː(ɹ)s/
Marse has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-marse.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is marse?
Marse appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Marse, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does marse come from?
From master.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).