: a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish
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With its corset bodice and mermaid style, this dress is a showstopper for formal and semiformal weddings alike.
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Jené Luciani Sena, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Gods and goddesses, fish and mermaids, sacred threads and stones — the possibilities were endless.
—Aditi Sriram, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
The walls were daubed with graffiti, including a full-breasted mermaid drawn in black marker, emerging from the waves to blow her apocalyptic trumpet.
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
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Jené Luciani Sena, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Gods and goddesses, fish and mermaids, sacred threads and stones — the possibilities were endless.
—Aditi Sriram, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
The walls were daubed with graffiti, including a full-breasted mermaid drawn in black marker, emerging from the waves to blow her apocalyptic trumpet.
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mermaid
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“Mermaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mermaid. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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mermaid
noun
mer·maid
ˈmər-ˌmād 
: an imaginary sea creature usually represented with a woman's body and a fish's tail
Etymology
Middle English mermayde "mermaid," from mere "lake, pool, sea" and mayde "maid"
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