meres
SayMEERZUS/mɪɚz/UK/mɪə̯z/
- 1Plural of mere.
Mist rose from the lowland meres just before dawn.
The hikers passed several reed-fringed meres along the trail.
Note
A plural shared by several unrelated nouns spelled mere: the lake or pond, the old word for a boundary or boundary-marker, and the Maori war-club. Water words nearby, such as mist and reeds, point to the lake. That sense belongs to literary and dialectal English and survives in place names such as Windermere. The adjective mere, meaning 'only', takes no plural, so meres is never that word.
meres is a form of mere
mere, noun: A body of still water such as a lake or pond, especially a broad, shallow one. Full entry
- Forms
- meremeres plural
- Spelling
- mere → meres: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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