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Definition of Mermaid
1. Noun. Half woman and half fish; lives in the sea.
Definition of Mermaid
1. n. A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Definition of Mermaid
1. Noun. A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mermaid
1. a legendary marine creature [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mermaid
1.
A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish, a European spatangoid sea urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) having some resemblance to a skull.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mermaid
Literary usage of Mermaid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The works of Alfred, lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson (1884)
"I. WHO would be A mermaid fair, Singing alone, Combing her hair Under the sea,
... I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"THE mermaid TAVERN SOULS of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the mermaid Tavern? ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"mermaid lace, a fine Venetian point-lace.—mermaid's fish-lines, a common seaweed,
Chorda шит: so called from its cord-like appearance. See Chorda, 2. ..."
4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1907)
"Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy
cavern, Choicer than the mermaid Tavern ? Have ye tippled drink more fine ..."
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