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Mere

Mere Meaning & Definition
Mere Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mere?

[n] (British) a small pond of standing water

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mere:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mere: 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

See Also | pond | pool

Mere In Webster's Dictionary

\-mere\ [Gr. ? part.] A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
\Mere\, n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf. {Mortal}, {Marine}, {Marsh}, {Mermaid}, {Moor}.] A pool or lake. --Drayton. Tennyson.
\Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re. [root]269.] A boundary. --Bacon.
\Mere\, v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
\Mere\, n. A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Mere\, a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. --Atterbury.

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