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"MERMAIDS" is a plural of: mermaid. |
Date "MERMAIDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Mermaids Sir James Emerson Tennent, speaking of the dugong, a cetacean, says, "Its head has a rude approach to the human outline, and the mother while suckling her young holds it to her breast with one flipper, as a woman holds her infant in her arm. If disturbed she suddenly dives under water, and tosses up her fish-like tail. It is this creature which has probably given rise to the tales about mermaids." Mermaid. Mary Queen of Scots (q.v.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MERMAIDS | English | Mediterranean Eddy Resolving Modelling And Interdisciplinary Studies | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Movie/TV Titles | Mermaids of Tiburon (1962) Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) School for Mermaids (1945) Grantland Rice Sportlight No. R1-1: Shooting Mermaids (1941) The Merry Mermaids (1918) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Naturalist's dream of mermaids collecting in the deep. In: "The Voyage of H. M. S. CHALLENGER A Summary....", Part I, p. xii. Library Call Number Q115.C4 1880 summary pt. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Mermaids. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Couple of mermaids. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "MERMAIDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "MERMAIDS" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 88.24% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.76% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MERMAIDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Wassernixen (nixies), Nixen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermaidsmay sereias. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"MERMAIDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceramides, Germidis, Marmaris, mermade, mermaide, mermis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MERMAIDS" (pronounced mer"mā'dz) |
| 4 | -m ā' d z | bridesmaids. |
| 3 | -ā' d z | accolades, barricades, escapades, Everglades, motorcades, renegades, switchblades. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: admires, dammers, dimmers, maimers, mermaid, mismade, misread, sedarim, sidearm. | |
-2 letters: admire, aiders, aimers, amides, armies, dammer, deairs, dermas, dermis, dimers, dimmer, disarm, dreams, irades, madres, maimed, maimer, mamies, medias, mimers, raised, ramies, rammed, redias, resaid, rimmed, simmer. | |
-3 letters: aider, aides, aimed, aimer, aired, amide, amids, amies, amirs, arise, armed, aside, dames, dares, deair. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: midstream, misframed, mismarked. | |
+2 letters: dreamtimes, formamides, mastermind, midstreams, scrimmaged, summarised, summarized. | |
+3 letters: disarmament, masterminds, misdemeanor, windjammers. | |
+4 letters: chambermaids, commanderies, commiserated, disarmaments, immoderacies, immortalised, mainstreamed, masterminded, memorialised, misdemeanors, misprogramed, praseodymium, semidiameter. | |
+5 letters: commandership, dynamometries, immoderations, maladminister, masterminding, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, misprogrammed, paedomorphism, praseodymiums, semidiameters. | |
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