Mere

Noun

 * 1)  the sea
 * 2)  a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh
 * 3) * 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 194:
 * Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.

Derived terms

 * mereswine
 * mermaid
 * merman
 * merfolk

Noun

 * 1) boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:
 * The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.

Verb

 * 1)  To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
 * 2)  To set divisions and bounds.

Adjective

 * 1)  famous.

Adjective
(comparative -, superlative merest)


 * 1)  pure, unalloyed
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.56:
 * Meere ignorance, and wholy relying on others, was verily more profitable and wiser, than is this verball, and vaine knowledge [...].
 * 1)  nothing less than; complete, downright
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
 * If every man might have what he would [...] we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.
 * 1) just, only; no more than
 * I saved a mere 10 pounds this week.

Thesaurus
absolute, austere, bare, basic, chaste, elementary, essential, fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, irreducible, just, monolithic, of a piece, only, plain, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, scant, severe, sheer, simon-pure, simple, single, spare, stark, unadorned, uncluttered, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, unenhanced, uniform, unmitigated, unmixed

Pronunciation

 * Etymologies 1, 2, 3 and 4


 * Etymology 5

Etymology 1
mere:, from, from. Cognate with Dutch meer:, German Meer:, Norwegian mar: (only used in combinations, such as marbakke:); and (from Indo-European) with Latin mare:, Breton mor:, Russian море:.

Etymology 2
From, from mære:, from , from. Cognate with meer:,  mærr:,  landamäre:.

Etymology 3
From, from mære:, from , from. Cognate with mære:,  mærr:.

Etymology 4
meer:, from mier:, from  merus:.

Etymology 5
mere:.

Translations

 * Dutch:, luttel
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, csupán


 * Polish: zaledwie
 * Serbian: пуки, пука, пуко
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) a Maori war-club

Anagrams

 * erme

Noun

 * 1) mother female family member

Etymology
mater:.

Adjective

 * 1) more

Etymology
From meiri:.

Anagrams

 * erme

Noun

 * 1) mother female family member

Etymology
mater:.

Noun

 * 1) sea, ocean
 * 2) lake, body of water

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with Old Saxon meri (Dutch meer), Old High German meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr (Swedish mar). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin mare, Old Irish muir (Breton mor), Old Church Slavonic море (Russian море), Lithuanian mãre.

Descendants

 * English: mere

Noun

 * 1) mother female family member

Etymology
mater:.

Noun
mere