Definitions

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  • proper noun An aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.
  • proper noun The language of the Meriam people.

Etymologies

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From Mer ("Murray Island"), off the northern coast of Australia.

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Examples

  • Fifteen-year-old Tunisian student Meriam Touzi developed a water conservation unit inspired by a household mishap, when her mother wasted water by leaving a tap on.

    International Student Scientists Show Cutting-Edge Inventions 2011

  • Dishonest, worthless person, person of inferior biological variation from Meriam; unprincipled decietful, a vagrant, etc. from others.

    Palin to visit Fort Hood during book tour 2009

  • Meriam Lobel, curator for the Center, says many New Yorkers had been reluctant to share their 9/11 memories.

    Memories Collected at Ground Zero 2011

  • There were cries of amazement as Kagi stirred them on the table, laughing, and J.B. plumped down in a chair, staring in disbelief, while Kagi explained that Meriam was a friend from the North who had heard of J. B.'s dire need of funds, and here he was, at the eleventh hour, with his personal contribution to the cause.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • He lugged out a handful of the eagles Meriam had given him, glancing across at the Wager House as he sorted the coins on his palm.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Anyway, I left nothing to chance, talking to each man in turn to be sure he knew his duties, and J.B. doled out the "commissions" and read his Constitution, and administered his oath of allegiance to the late-comer Meriam and a couple of the blacks, who hadn't taken them before.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • When Father Elemo Tapim and his gangs of Eastern Torres Strait Islanders began work constructing the massive Queensland and Western Australian inland rail system, they documented every mile in a remarkable collection of songs in the Meriam language.

    Eastern Torres Strait Islander Songs 2009

  • Furthermore, Flora takes the opportunity to explain birth control to the obvious information lacking Meriam, before returning to the house.

    Archive 2006-01-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • She then enters the hut of the hired girl Meriam, who has just given birth to her fourth child, and asks if she can wash the curtains in a day or two.

    Archive 2006-01-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • Furthermore, Flora takes the opportunity to explain birth control to the obvious information lacking Meriam, before returning to the house.

    Town Mouse Country Mouse ____Maggie 2006

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