mere

Pronunciation






Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,. The Middle English word was perhaps influenced by or conflated with sound-alike, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
 * 2)  Pure, unalloyed.
 * 3)  Nothing less than; complete, downright.
 * 1)  Pure, unalloyed.
 * 2)  Nothing less than; complete, downright.
 * 1)  Pure, unalloyed.
 * 2)  Nothing less than; complete, downright.
 * 1)  Pure, unalloyed.
 * 2)  Nothing less than; complete, downright.
 * 1)  Nothing less than; complete, downright.
 * 1)  Nothing less than; complete, downright.

Translations

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 * Chinese:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Mirandese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, не бо́лее чем
 * Serbo-Croatian: пуки
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, лише́
 * Volapük:

Etymology 2
From, from , , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.

Verb

 * 1)  To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
 * 2)  To set divisions and bounds.
 * 3)  To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.

Etymology 3
From, from (“lake, pool,” in compounds and poetry “sea”), from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. Non-Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Etymology 4
See.

Noun

 * 1)   and .

Etymology 5
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A Maori war-club.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) more; to a higher degree
 * 2) more; in greater quantity
 * 1) more; in greater quantity

Usage notes
"Mere", in the second sense, is only used with uncountable nouns. For countable nouns, use.

Adverb

 * 1) more

Adverb

 * 1) purely, without admixture.
 * 2) merely, no more or less than

Etymology 1
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  greater, larger
 * 2) older
 * 1) older

Determiner

 * 1) more

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  lake (fresh water)
 * 2) sea (salt water)

Etymology 1
From, , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) boundary, border

Etymology 2
From, from , from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬,.

Adjective

 * 1)  glorious, renowned.
 * 2)  illustrious, noble, great.
 * 3) beautiful, fair.
 * 4) splendid, fine, good.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) mother female family member

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬). The Indo-European root is also the source of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) lake
 * 2) pool
 * 3) (poetic or in compounds) sea

Etymology
From earlier, from , mātrem.

Noun

 * 1) mother female family member

Etymology
From the nominative of, via intermediate forms like *maire, *meire. For final /-or/ > /-re/, cf. Sardinian, from Latin.

Noun

 * 1)  owner, master