mercer

1. 1.

   a dealer in textiles (especially silks)

   Broadertrader

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)

   SynonymsJohn Mercer

   Broadermanufacturer

Other forms of mercer

plural

mercers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mercer

What does mercer mean?

mercer means "a dealer in textiles (especially silks)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mercer?

mercer has 2 syllables: mer-cer. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ˈmɝsɚ/.

What is another word for mercer?

Close synonyms include John Mercer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mercer a common word?

mercer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.