Mermaid Definition

mûrmād
mermaids
noun
An imaginary sea creature with the head and upper body of a beautiful woman and the tail of a fish.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mermaid

Noun

Singular:
mermaid
Plural:
mermaids

Origin of Mermaid

  • From Middle English mermayde (“maid of the sea"), from mere (“sea, lake") + maid, equivalent to mer- +"Ž maid. Compare Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English mere sea, lake mere2 maid maid maid

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mermaid Sentence Examples

  • The " Mermaid " is sometimes described as in Bread Street, and at other times in Friday Street and also in Cheapside.

  • To his great surprise he found he had caught a beautiful mermaid.

  • It was in this block that the " Mermaid " was situated, and there appear to have been entrances from each street.

  • A real treat was to find a mermaid's purse entwined in the seaweed.

  • What makes this fact still more certain is the circumstance that a haberdasher in Cheapside living "'twixt Wood Street and Milk Street," two streets on the north side opposite Bread and Friday Streets, described himself as " over against the Mermaid tavern in Cheapside."

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