mazer

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/ˈmeɪzə/

noun

The maple tree, or maple wood.

OriginMiddle English maser ← Frankish *masur ← Proto-Germanic *masuraz →
UncommonScrabble 16
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Meanings

mazer1

nounmazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)

plural mazers · alternative maser

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe maple tree, or maple wood.
  2. archaiccountablehistoricaluncountableA large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.

    Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]

    1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
    1 more example

    Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me

    1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC

Mazer2

proper nounMazer (plural Mazers)

plural Mazers

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Old English*mæser
  2. Proto-Germanic*masuraz
  3. Frankish*masur
  4. Middle Englishmaser
  5. Englishmazer

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”). It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with mazer

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Anagrams

MaerzMarezMeraz
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APA

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MLA

“mazer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mazer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mazer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mazer.

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