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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fabulous man of the sea, with the lower part of the body that of a fish.
  2. n. In heraldry, same as triton.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984)
  2. n. half man and half fish; lives in the sea

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English mereman, from Old English *meremann ("merman") (suggested by Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin ("mermaid, siren"), equivalent to mer- +‎ man. Cognate with Dutch meerman ("merman"), German Meermann ("merman"). (Wiktionary)
  2. mer(maid) + man. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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