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Definitions for Martial
ˈmɑr ʃəlmar·tial

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Martialadjective

    Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)

  2. soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike, martialadjective

    (of persons) befitting a warrior

    "a military bearing"

  3. warlike, martialadjective

    suggesting war or military life

  4. martial(a)adjective

    of or relating to the armed forces

    "martial law"

Wiktionary

  1. martialadjective

    Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.

  2. martialadjective

    Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.

  3. martialadjective

    Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike.

  4. Martialnoun

    narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).

    Saint Martial was the first bishop of Limoges circa 250

  5. Martialnoun

    Anglicized cognomen or given name of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, born in Spain in the first century AD and noted for his epigrams.

  6. Etymology: Martialis, a Roman cognomen, from martialis "belonging/dedicated to Mars (or to war)", itself from the name of the Roman god of war Mars + -ialis.

Wikipedia

  1. Martial

    Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram.

ChatGPT

  1. martial

    Martial generally refers to anything relating to war, soldiers, or military life. It can describe skills or attitudes associated with combat and warfare. The term is derived from Mars, the Roman god of war.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Martialadjective

    of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance

  2. Martialadjective

    practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave

  3. Martialadjective

    belonging to war, or to an army and navy; -- opposed to civil; as, martial law; a court-martial

  4. Martialadjective

    pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars

  5. Martialadjective

    pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations

Wikidata

  1. Martial

    Marcus Valerius Martialis, was a Latin poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. He is considered to be the creator of the modern epigram.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Martial

    mär′shal, adj. belonging to Mars, the god of war, or to the planet Mars: of or belonging to war, or to the army and navy: warlike: brave.—ns. Mar′tialism; Mar′tialist.—adv. Mar′tially.Martial law, law enforced during a state of war for the proper government of armies, and for the punishment of those who break the laws of war. [Fr.,—L. martialisMars, Martis.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Martial

    a Latin poet, born at Bilbilis, in Spain; went to Rome, stayed there, favoured of the emperors Titus and Domitian, for 35 years, and then returned to his native city, where he wrote his Epigrammata, a collection of short poems over 1500 in number, divided into 14 books, books xiii. and xiv. being entitled respectively Xenia and Apophoreta; these epigrams are distinguished for their wit, diction, and indecency, but are valuable for the light they shed on the manners of Rome at the period (43-104).

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. martial

    Pertaining to war; suited to war; military, as, martial music; a martial appearance; given to war; warlike; brave, as, a martial nation or people; belonging to war, or to an army and navy; opposed to civil; as, martial law; a court-martial.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MARTIAL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Martial is ranked #77788 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Martial surname appeared 246 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Martial.

    73.1% or 180 total occurrences were Black.
    19.5% or 48 total occurrences were White.
    3.2% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    3.2% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Martial in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Martial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Martial in a Sentence

  1. The Washington Post:

    While theRussian president may be a former KGB agent and expert in martial arts witha reputation as a fierce political leader, he has frequently shown his softer side around animals.

  2. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa:

    Look, I do n’t want to offend anyone : Ring girls are the most useless people in martial arts. What is their function ? I have a question. You can show that it is the second round on the screen, i realize that is a history( behind ring card girls). History knows many mistakes. We read history to avoid mistakes of the past in the future. If we look in the history, it says they are useless. That is my personal opinion. Dana White maybe likes it. Maybe you do, too. But my name is not Dana White. My name is Khabib Nurmagomedov.

  3. Ryan Guilds:

    It is very hard to be a survivor in a criminal case, that is one of the many reasons you see so few of these cases go to court-martial.

  4. Steve Vladeck:

    Lt. Col. Briggs has consistently maintained his innocence in this case, but the question the government is asking the Supreme Court to decide is not what actually happened between him and DK, but the more technical legal question whether the military has the power to court-martial servicemembers for offenses that allegedly took place well over a decade ago, and in which, according to the highest court in the military, the statute of limitations had already expired.

  5. Edward Alsworth Ross:

    During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

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