Mascarene
adjective, noun
Mascarene is an adjective meaning “Of, from, or relating to, the Mascarene Islands” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-S-C-A-R-E-N-E, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Mascarene mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, from, or relating to, the Mascarene Islands
noun
- 1
Someone from the Mascarene Islands.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Mascarene?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Mascarene.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Mascarene
- Mascarenes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Mascarene?
Mascarene appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Mascarene come from?
From the name of Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).