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mark.

ground (surface of the Earth (or some other planet, etc.), or the area (immediately) beneath it)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/mark//ˈmarkɛr//ˈmarˌkɛr/

  1. ground (surface of the Earth (or some other planet, etc.), or the area (immediately) beneath it)

    common-gender · uncountable
    Fåglar gillar att flyga, men ibland går de omkring på marken.
    Han lade sig platt på marken.

  2. land, ground (area of ground)

    common-gender
    Bonden ägde mycket mark.
    Nisse äger marken på andra sidan sjön.

  3. land, ground (area of ground) soil (land belonging to someone, when idiomatic in English)

    common-gender
    vara på brittisk mark

  4. land, ground (area of ground) territory

    common-gender
    vara på okänd mark

  5. land, ground (area of ground) land in its natural state, wild land

    common-gender · in-plural · often
    ströva omkring i markerna
    Det är torrt i markerna.

  6. ground (distance, etc., similar to English – sometimes figuratively)

    common-gender
    Löparen tappade mark på sista varvet.
    Partiet har vunnit mark.

  7. mark (currency)

    common-gender · historical

  8. mark (unit of weight)

    common-gender · historical

  9. counter, marker

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”)―and hence English margin―and also with Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.