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mermaids

mermaids is the plural of mermaid.

Meaning of mermaid

Noun

mermaid (plural mermaids)

  1. A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
    • Search the depth, & ſee that variety of Sea monſters & fiſhes, Mare-maids, Sea men, Horſes, &c. which it affords.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...
  2. Coloured a brilliant turquoise.
    • a mermaid smoothie
  3. (obsolete) A prostitute.
    • A Gentleman or an honeſt Cittizen, ſhall not Sit in your pennie-bench Theaters, vvith his Squirrell by his ſide cracking nuttes; nor ſneake into a Tauerne vvith his Mermaid; but he ſhall be Satyr'd and Epigram'd vpon, and his humour muſt run vpo'th Stage: […]1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature H2, recto

Phrases with mermaids

Questions about mermaids

What is mermaids the plural of?
Mermaids is the plural of mermaid.

Words near mermaids in the dictionary

  1. mermaidens
  2. mermaiding
  3. mermaidish
  4. mermaidism
  5. mermaidlike
  6. mermaids
  7. mermaids' purse
  8. mermaids' purses
  9. mermaids' tears
  10. mermaidweed
  11. mermaidweeds

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