Mary has a written a new play called "The Little Merman" and hopes that Tom will star in it.
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Merman
Synonyms for "merman" (34 found)
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39 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غرانق الماء noun (legendary creature)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тритон noun (legendary creature)
Catalan
1 entries- tritó noun (legendary creature)
Danish
1 entries- havmand noun (legendary creature)
Dutch
2 entries- meerman noun (legendary creature)
- zeemeerman noun (legendary creature)
Esperanto
1 entries- marviro noun (legendary creature)
Finnish
2 entries- vedenhaltija noun (legendary creature)
- vetehinen noun (legendary creature)
French
1 entries- triton noun (legendary creature)
Georgian
2 entries- კაცთევზა noun (legendary creature)
- ტრიტონი noun (legendary creature)
German
1 entries- Wassermann noun (legendary creature)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kāne hiʻu iʻa noun (legendary creature)
Hindi
2 entries- जलमानव noun (legendary creature)
- जलमानुस noun (legendary creature)
Icelandic
1 entries- marbendill noun (legendary creature)
Irish
1 entries- murúch fir noun (legendary creature)
Italian
1 entries- tritone noun (legendary creature)
Japanese
2 entries- マーマン noun (legendary creature)
- 半魚人 noun (legendary creature)
Korean
2 entries- 반어인 noun (legendary creature)
- 어인 noun (legendary creature)
Latin
3 entries- semivir marinus noun (legendary creature)
- trito noun (legendary creature)
- triton noun (legendary creature)
Norwegian
1 entries- havmann noun (legendary creature)
Persian
1 entries- دریامرد noun (legendary creature)
Polish
1 entries- tryton noun (legendary creature)
Portuguese
2 entries- sereio noun (legendary creature)
- tritão noun (legendary creature)
Sindhi
1 entries- جل مانس noun (legendary creature)
Spanish
1 entries- tritón noun (legendary creature)
Swedish
1 entries- havsman noun (legendary creature)
Tagalog
1 entries- siyokoy noun (legendary creature)
Turkish
1 entries- deniz erkeği noun (legendary creature)
Urdu
1 entries- جل مانس noun (legendary creature)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người cá noun (legendary creature)
Welsh
1 entries- morwas noun (legendary creature)
Sample sentences
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The palace of the Merman King lies in the very deepest part; its walls are of coral and the long pointed windows of the clearest amber, but the roof is made of mussel shells which open and shut with the lapping of the water.
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The Merman King had been for many years a widower.
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Thus buoyed up, he floated on the waves like a merman, or like an angler's dobber, until he landed safely on a rock, where he was found the next morning busily drying his many breeches in the sunshine.
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