Mercer

//ˈmɝsɚ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.

    "... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour..."

  2. 2
    a dealer in textiles (especially silks) wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A village on the Waikato River, Waikato region, New Zealand.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Mercer County, Illinois.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Adams County, Iowa.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Somerset County, Maine, named after Hugh Mercer.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Mercer County, Missouri.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in McLean County, North Dakota.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, named after Hugh Mercer; formerly, Milan.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A borough, the county seat of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Named after Hugh Mercer.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Madison County, Tennessee.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

All synonyms
clothierdraperfurrierhaberdasherjohn mercer

Example

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"Mr. Mercer, who in 1846 was the principal civil officer of Government at Badulla, sent me a jagged fragment of an elephant’s tusk, about five inches in diameter, and weighing between twenty and thirty pounds, which had been brought to him by some natives, who, being attracted by a noise in the jungle, witnessed a combat between a tusker and one without tusks, and saw the latter with his trunk seize one of the tusks of his antagonist and wrench from it the portion in question, which measured two feet in length."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).

Etymology 2

English and Catalan surname, variant of Mercier.

Related phrases

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