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mears

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mears¹

noun

  1. plural plural of mear

Mears²

Where it comes from

* 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.

proper noun Mearses

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from Old English.
  2. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Oceana County, Michigan, United States.

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@misc{mears_2026,
  title = {mears},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mears},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}