marines
French, verb
marines is spelled M-A-R-I-N-E-S (7 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marines is a French verb meaning “second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of mariner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, marinés is a different word: “masculine plural of mariné”.
What does marines mean in English?
verb
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second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of mariner
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of mariné
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Corps militaire aéronaval américain.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is marines in French?
marines appears 8.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).