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  • proper noun A language of Cameroon.

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Examples

  • Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation.

    The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller: Book summary 2010

  • Meri is studying for her long-delayed college degree.

    TLC's 'Sister Wives': Frank, entertaining TV about polygamist Browns in Utah Hank Stuever 2010

  • Ten princes of the name of Ramesses, and one called Meri-Tum, bore sway during this interval, each of them showing, if possible, greater weakness than the last, and all of them sunk in luxury, idle, effeminate, sensual.

    Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857

  • Meri is one of Miller’s young women scarred by a loveless childhood, and she is, by contrast, uneasy with just about everything in her life.

    2009 September « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Meri is one of Miller’s young women scarred by a loveless childhood, and she is, by contrast, uneasy with just about everything in her life.

    The Senator’s Wife « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Belle sighed heavily and, with a snap of her fingers, called Meri P. to her and left the room, her teacup in her hand and her air of indignation like a mantle about her tiny shoulders.

    Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

  • Belle sighed heavily and, with a snap of her fingers, called Meri P. to her and left the room, her teacup in her hand and her air of indignation like a mantle about her tiny shoulders.

    Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

  • Belle sighed heavily and, with a snap of her fingers, called Meri P. to her and left the room, her teacup in her hand and her air of indignation like a mantle about her tiny shoulders.

    Carolina Mist Mariah Stewart 1996

  • Organisations are now being formed to address such issues, in Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) a full-fledged organisation called Meri biwi se bachao (save me from my wife) has been formed.

    The Statesman 2010

  • One likes to think that the name of the gentle-hearted woman has come down to us; but, whether she was called 'Meri' or not, she and the others have no name here.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

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