Mercer

//ˈmɝsɚ// name, noun

Definitions

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.
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

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.

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