Usually means: Small, often shallow, body of water.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word mere:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. mere: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -mere, mere: Merriam-Webster
  3. mere, mere, mere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mere, mere, mere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -mere, mere: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mere: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mere, -mere, mere: Wordnik
  8. mere: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mere, -mere, mere: Wiktionary
  10. -mere, mere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mere: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mere, -mere, mere: Dictionary.com
  14. mere (adj.), mere (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mere: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mere (lake), Mere (weapon), Mere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mere, -mere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mere: Rhymezone
  20. mere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mere: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. -mere, mere: MyWord.info
  23. mere: FreeDictionary.org
  24. mere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. mere: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. mere: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -mere, mere-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. mere: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -mere, mere: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -mere: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MERE: Acronym Finder
  2. mere: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mere: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See merely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
adjective:  (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .
adjective:  (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright .
noun:  Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
verb:  (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
noun:  (dialectal or literary) 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.)
noun:  A Maori war-club.
noun:  A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7381).
noun:  A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132).
noun:  A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.

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