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mere

UK /mɪə̯/US /mɪɚ/

adjective 3
verb 3
noun 6
forms 5
phrases 1

adjective3

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being only what is named and nothing bigger or better, used before a noun
- The mere thought of pineapple on pizza makes me want to throw up.
- The mere suggestion that the queen’s brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason.
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(no longer used) Pure, unalloyed .
- So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…]. — 1590
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(no longer used) Nothing less than; complete, downright .
- If every man might have what he would[…]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion. — 1624

verb3

To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
(no longer used) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
(no longer used) To set divisions and bounds.

noun6

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(dialect, UK) A body of standing water, inclusive of lakes, ponds, and pools, especially any broad and shallow one.
- The meres of Shropshire and Cheshire. — 1791
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(dialect, UK) Synonym of marsh.
- Cully Barnaby: Right to roam, Dad. She has got a point. DCI Tom Barnaby: But it's a mere. Who'd want to walk across a mere? — 1999
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A Maori war-club.
- As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori. — 2000
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Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
- 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. — 1590
(no longer used) Synonym of sea, a large body of salt water.
(no longer used) Synonym of inlet, an arm of the sea.

forms

mered · mering · meres · merer · merest

Phrases with mere

mere mortal
One who is not a god; a human being.

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