Definition/Meaning of mere

• English - Adjective: mere (comparative merer, superlative merest) Just , only ; no more than, pure and simple , neither more nor better than might be expected. 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. (obsolete) Pure , unalloyed . 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie…
• English - Noun: mere (plural meres) Boundary , limit ; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: 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. mere (plural…
• English - Verb: mere (third-person singular simple present meres, present participle mering, simple past and past participle mered) (obsolete, transitive) To limit ; bound ; divide or cause division in. (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds. To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map. 2016 April 28, David EM Andrews, “Merely a question of boundaries.”, in Sheetlines, The…
• English - Anagrams: erme
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English mere , mer, from Anglo-Norman meer , from Old French mier , from Latin merus (“pure, unmixed, undiluted”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to sparkle, gleam”). Cognate with Old English āmerian , āmyrian (“to purify, examine, revise”). The Middle English word was perhaps influenced by or conflated with sound-alike Middle English mere (“glorious, noble, splendid,…