mermaid

UK /ˈmɜːˌmeɪd/ US /ˈmɝ.meɪd/

noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

beautiful, fair, farther, little, live, lovely, most, right

VERB + MERMAID

asked, pretend, said, saw

MERMAID + NOUN

grandchildren, princesses, smoothie

PREP.

down, off, on, up

ADV.

ever, then

Definitions

noun

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.

People that are drowned, and whose bodies are not founds are believed to have been taken into the dwellings of the Mermaids.

Coloured a brilliant turquoise.

a mermaid smoothie

mermaid ice-cream

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: […]

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Example Bank

Search the depth, & ſee that variety of Sea monſters & fiſhes, Mare-maids, Sea men, Horſes, &c. which it affords.

Wiktionary

People that are drowned, and whose bodies are not founds are believed to have been taken into the dwellings of the Mermaids.

Wiktionary

a mermaid smoothie

Wiktionary

The legend says that she was a mermaid.

Tatoeba · #279063

I saw one, a mermaid, when I was a primary schooler. But it wasn't that sort of fairy-tale atmosphere of a story.

Tatoeba · #327402

The little mermaid sighed and looked sadly at her fish tail.

Tatoeba · #1131488

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In some senses, mermaid is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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