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/ˈmɜːˌmeɪd/ · 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.
a mermaid smoothie
mermaid ice-cream
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: […]
Use mermaid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mermaid means A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish..
Common synonyms include mergirl, merlady, mermaiden, merwoman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Search the depth, & ſee that variety of Sea monſters & fiſhes, Mare-maids, Sea men, Horſes, &c. which it affords.
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