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say it: MUR-kyur-ee
mercury is a noun meaning "a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures". It is pronounced /ˈmɝkjɚi/ — MUR-kyur-ee. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
(Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
Roman mythology
the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mercury come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.