English Explanatory Dictionary

mears

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of mear
name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A census-designated place in Oceana County, Michigan, United States.

Word forms

mears Mearses

Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Mear, topographic surname for someone who lived by a pond, from Old English mere (“lake, pool”), or near a boundary, from ġemǣre (“boundary, border”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó Meidhir, from meidhir (“mirth”). Compare Myers.

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