Mere

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being nothing more than what is specified: a mere child; a mere 50 cents an hour.
  • adj. Considered apart from anything else: shocked by the mere idea.
  • adj. Small; slight: could detect only the merest whisper.
  • adj. Obsolete Pure; unadulterated.
  • n. A small lake, pond, or marsh: "Sometimes on lonely mountain meres/I find a magic bark” ( Tennyson).
  • n. Archaic A boundary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the sea
  • n. a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh
  • adj. famous.
  • n. a Maori war-club
  • n. boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line
  • v. To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
  • v. To set divisions and bounds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A pool or lake.
  • n. A boundary.
  • v. To divide, limit, or bound.
  • n. A mare.
  • adj. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
  • adj. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A pool; a small lake. or pond.
  • n. A boundary; boundary-line.
  • n. A balk or furrow serving as a boundary- or dividing-line in a common field; also, a boundary-stone; a merestone.
  • n. A private carriage-road.
  • n. A measure of 29 or 31 yards in the Peak of Derbyshire in England.
  • To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
  • To set divisions and bounds.
  • 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.
  • Absolutely; wholly.
  • Famous.
  • n. A Middle English form of mare.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being nothing more than specified
  • n. a small pond of standing water
  • adj. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  • Equivalent
    specified    plain   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pool    pond   
    Cross Reference
    mere right   
    Form
    merman    mereswine    merfolk    mermaid   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    boundary    mare    unmixed    pure    entire    absolute    unqualified    simple    bare    bald   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    own    ordinary    occasional    enfant    Chere    fille    Cher    tea    Amie    soeur