Meaning of Mere | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
2. A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond (formerly even a body of seawater), especially a broad, shallow one. (Also included in place names such as Windermere.)
   dialectal, literary
3. A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7381).
4. A Maori war-club.
5. A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England
6. A small lake, pond, or marsh: "Sometimes on lonely mountain meres / I find a magic bark" (Tennyson).
7. A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132).
8. A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England
9. a boundary or boundary marker.
10. A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
11. A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium
12. a combining form meaning “part,” “segment,” “unit,” used esp. in terms describing structures or divisions of a cell: blastomere; centromere.
13. Considered apart from anything else:very.
14. no more than or no better than. a mere child; the merest suggestion of criticism. maar net مُجَردَ обикновен simples pouhý, prostý bloß, rein blot (et barn); mindste απλός, μόνος, σκέτοςsimple, mero ei miski muu kui, pelk محض pelkkä simpleרק केवल puk, čist puszta, merő, egyszerű hanya sem er ekkert meira en semplice, solo ほんの 단지 ...에 불과한 paprastas, tikras tīrais; niecīgākais cuma niet meer danbare, ren, simpelzwykły كټ مټ، بلكل simples numai, doar не более чем číry; obyčajný sam ništa do blot...
15. simply or only. I was merely asking a question. maar net مُجَرَّدا، فَقَط просто simplesmente jenom bloß blot; kun απλά, μόνοsólo, meramente ainult تنها vain seulementרק केवल इतना ही jedino csupán sekadar einungis solamente 単に 단지 paprasčiausiai, tiktai tikai; vienīgi cuma alleen maarutelukkende, blott, barepo prostu, jedynie تنها simplesmente pur şi simplu; doar просто, только len samo samo bara, endast อย่างง่าย ๆ sadece 僅僅，只是 тільки, лише صرف đơn thuần 仅仅
16. Being nothing more than what is specified: a mere child; a mere 50 cents an hour.
17. Considered apart from anything else: shocked by the mere idea.
18. Small; slight: could detect only the merest whisper.
19. Obsolete Pure; unadulterated.
    Obsolete

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Examples

“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.”

“When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:”

“The meres of Shropshire and Cheshire.”

“As a tempest influences the sluggish waters of the deadest mere.”

“A gloomy-gladed hollow slowly sink To westward - in the deeps whereof a mere, Round as the red eye of an Eagle-owl, Under the half-dead sunset glared”

“[…] the salt field which extends from those old salt meres at Barton, a little south of Birkdale, and on to Preesall, near Fleetwood.”

“She loved.. to watch the lovely shadows in the silent depths of the placid mere.”

“Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.”

“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.”

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