'Mere' definitions:

Definition of 'mere'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"
adjective
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn: bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)]
noun
A small pond of standing water

Definition of 'Mere'

From: GCIDE
  • Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf. Mortal, Marine, Marsh, Mermaid, Moor.] A pool or lake. --Drayton. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mere'

From: GCIDE
  • Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re. [root]269.] A boundary. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mere'

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  • Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mere'

From: GCIDE
  • Mere \Mere\, n. A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mere'

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  • Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
  • 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. [1913 Webster]
  • Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. [1913 Webster]
  • From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'mere'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Mere'