Mere

Word MERE
Character 4
Hyphenation mere
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Mere"

What do we mean by mere?

Being nothing more than what is specified. adjective

Considered apart from anything else. adjective

Small; slight. adjective

Pure; unadulterated. adjective

A small lake, pond, or marsh. noun

A pool; a small lake. or pond. noun

Absolutely; wholly.

Famous.

A boundary; boundary-line. noun

A balk or furrow serving as a boundary- or dividing-line in a common field; also, a boundary-stone; a merestone. noun

A private carriage-road. noun

A measure of 29 or 31 yards in the Peak of Derbyshire in England. noun

Pure; sheer; unmixed.

Absolute; unqualified; utter; whole; in the fullest sense.

Sheer; simple; nothing but (the thing mentioned); only: as, it is mere folly to do so; this is the merest trash.

A Middle English form of mare. noun

In the reticulum or supporting skeleton of the extinct silicious sponges of the family Dictyospongidæ, one of the divisions or meshes produced by the intersection of the primary vertical and horizontal spicular bundles. It is subdivided by the spicules of. subordinate rank into lesser areas or quadrangles—dimeres, tetrameres, hexameres. noun

A Maori war-club; a casse-tête, or war-ax, from 12 to 18 inches in length, made of any suitable hard material, as stone, hard wood, or whalebone. Outside of New Zealand the word is only known as the name of a little trinket of greenstone made in imitation of the New Zealand weapon in miniature, mounted in gold or silver, and used as a brooch, locket, ear-ring, or other article of jewelry. noun

To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.

To set divisions and bounds.

A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.

When referencing a number, it must be no more than 500. Urban Dictionary

A word originally meaning "come here". It definition has expanded to also cover "get over here", "give me" or "gimme", and "want" or "I want". The word "mere" is normally used in conjunction with an opening and closing of ones hand with the palm facing up, in a "come here" or "gimme" fashion, similar to what a child would do when wanting something. It also can be combined with right meow to emphasize. It originates from the incorrect pronunciation/combination of "come here". It was created by a young child just learning how to talk. Urban Dictionary

To have a mere is to screw something up. To be a mere is to be a screw-up Urban Dictionary

Best person ever, so funny, kind and pretty ~definition of girlboss and super alt Urban Dictionary

'Only' Urban Dictionary

Sexy dark skin with dress game Urban Dictionary

When someone is really drunk, all they do is say '' 'Mere ''. Which is simply said person trying to say ''Come here'' but slurred because they are plastered. Is usually accompanied with or followed by some sort of hand gesture. Urban Dictionary

Small Town on Wiltshire/Dorset/Somerset border. To say somebody comes from Mere implies they are a Mutant/Inbred. Urban Dictionary

Sexy darkskin with shoe and dress game Urban Dictionary

A word that introduces the next chapter in a thundercats episode; Onomatopoeia. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mere

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The word "mere" in example sentences

The manner in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase “My Sabbath,” and “My holy day,” is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap theology_, _mere display_! ❋ Various (N/A)

Are we to suppose then that the insanity of the third character, the Fool, is, in this respect, a mere repetition of that of the second, the beggar, -- that it too is _mere_ pretence? ❋ Unknown (1893)

Pompilia shone with a glory that mere knowledge could not give (if there were such a thing as _mere_ knowledge). ❋ Henry Jones (1887)

Ma mere qui me pointe le bouquin de tele le doigt sur un programme "tiens regarde ca devrait t'interesser" ... * pinku mate* "la nuit Gay des Lesbiennes" ... * jete un oeil a sa mere* "faut pas pousser non plus ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2004)

Another subject I recently interviewed blamed what he called mere "centa-millionaires" for the breakdown in exclusivity of his elitist world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For his part, Nigerien President Mamadou Tanja has rejected all negotiation with what he describes as mere "armed bandits." ❋ Unknown (2007)

To the Christian, on the other hand, or to the modern thinker in general, it is difficult, if not impossible, to attach reality to what he terms mere abstraction; while to Plato this very abstraction is the truest and most real of all things. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But between cases of what we call mere succession and what is commonly called causal sequence the difference lies merely in the observed fact that in some cases the sequence varies, while in others no exception has ever been discovered. ❋ Hastings Rashdall (N/A)

From that time death had held for him a more personal promise; and the obligation to live, to fulfil one's present opportunities, had become charged with another meaning than he had been used to read into what he called his mere animal responsibility. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)

But Chauvelin was not the man to trouble himself about these social amenities, which he called mere incidents in his diplomatic career. ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)

"Quite so, Bickley, and now perhaps you see my point, that what you describe as mere vain words may also be helpful to mankind; more so, indeed, than your surgical instruments and pills." ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

The perfectly chosen furniture, the elegant appointments of every sort and description, the view from the partly opened windows, the view of winding river and noble trees -- all looked rich and cultivated and lovely; and the Irish girl, as she gazed around, found suddenly a great, fierce hatred rising up in her heart against what she called the mere prettiness. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)

According to the Chinese, music includes that phase of sound which we call mere noise, and the harmonizing of this noise is Chinese art. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)

He did not at all undervalue what he called the mere political connection, but he urged that the root of such a connection lay in the natural affection of the colonies for the land from which they sprang, and their spontaneous desire to reproduce its laws and the spirit of its institutions. ❋ John Morley (1880)

He himself did not care to talk about the real origin of his fortune, for to have revealed it would have prevented him from plainly expressing his opinion of the Crimean War, which he referred to as a mere adventurous expedition, "undertaken simply to consolidate the throne and to fill certain persons 'pockets." ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Now the Bible uses that word _know_ to express two different things; one which we call mere intellectual perception; or to put it into plainer words, mere head knowledge such as a man may have about any subject of study, and the other a deep and living experience which is possession before it is knowledge, and knowledge because it is possession. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Sir Ralph was now content that the latter should enter the Church, but he was unwilling that his son should become what he called a mere shaveling, and desired that he should attain power and position in his profession. ❋ Unknown (1867)

That's in line with the company's effort to focus on features rather than version numbers, which it calls mere milestones. ❋ Stephen Shankland (2011)

[The race] [took] mere [seconds]. ❋ Mbeckman (2010)

A child wanting his father to come over to him, while opening and closing his hand at him: "[Mere]!" Trying to get the [bartender's] attention at a bar: "Mere, [right meow]!" Man wanting his woman to come to the bedroom for some late night activities, with hand gesture: "Mere!" Woman wanting a hit off of her man's cigarette, with the opening and closing of her hand directed at the cigarette: "Mere!" ❋ Nvodka (2009)

[John Smith] is [the biggest] mere I've ever [seen]! ❋ Adam Stevens (2004)

mere=[girlboss] ❋ Dona The Coolest Person Ever (2021)

It's 'merely' for [the time] being It's 'merely' a [stepping stone] to [getting] there ❋ LDNStudent (2013)

[Hey you] should [date] [mere] ❋ Queenb37 (2017)

" [Hey you]! 'Mere" ❋ I Don't Want To Put A Name. (2011)

[Random] 1 - "Oh, my friend comes from Mere." Random 2 - "Have they got three legs?" Random 1 - " No, but their [uncle] is also their [Father]...." ❋ DrQui (2006)

[Hey you] should [talk to] [mere] ❋ Queenb37 (2017)

"*Mere Mere Meeereeee* Oh no, [Jackie] has a [tumor] in her [brain]" ❋ Fitzgeraldo (2007)

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