mere
IPA: mˈɪr
noun
- Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
- (dialectal or literary) 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.
- A Maori war-club.
- A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7381).
- A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132).
- A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
- (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
adjective
- Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
- (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .
- (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright .
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Examples of "mere" in Sentences
- He was merely overhasty.
- The name is merely metaphorical.
- The clientele is merely diferent.
- Brahmins are merely the scapegoats.
- The instructions are merely a nicety.
- But that's a mere archaism that got stuck.
- It is merely the definition of the property.
- It is merely the assertion of the journalist.
- Cordiality can only go so far when it is a merely a gloss.
- The choices are not just mere faddish expressions but are deep decisions about culture.
- Pompilia shone with a glory that mere knowledge could not give (if there were such a thing as _mere_ knowledge).
- For his part, Nigerien President Mamadou Tanja has rejected all negotiation with what he describes as mere "armed bandits."
- But Chauvelin was not the man to trouble himself about these social amenities, which he called mere incidents in his diplomatic career.
- Another subject I recently interviewed blamed what he called mere "centa-millionaires" for the breakdown in exclusivity of his elitist world.
- 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?
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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_!
- 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.
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