Mariel
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mariel
- A female given name
- A city and bay in northwest Cuba.
- The Mariel boatlift, when some 125,000 Cubans entered the United States.
Noun
[edit]Mariel (plural Mariels)
- Someone who arrived in the US during the Mariel boatlift; a Marielito. [from 20th c.]
- 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 34:
- I happened to be in the coroner's office one morning when autopsies were being performed on the bodies of two Mariels, shot and apparently pushed from a car on I-95 about nine the evening before […] .
Alternative forms
[edit]See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mariel
- Mariel (a municipality of Artemisa Province, Cuba)
- a female given name
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mariel.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mariel ?
- A town in Artemisa, Cuba
- a female given name
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -el
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano proper nouns
- ceb:Municipalities of Cuba
- ceb:Places in Cuba
- Cebuano given names
- Cebuano female given names
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/el
- Rhymes:Spanish/el/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- es:Towns in Cuba
- es:Places in Cuba
- Spanish given names
- Spanish female given names