Mercedes en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /məˈseɪdiz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /mɚˈseɪdiz/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Spanish Mercedes (Mary, Our Lady of Mercy). The car was named for Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek who ordered 36 cars from Gottlieb Daimler.
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of Mercedes-Benz (“a car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz”).
alt of Mercedes-Benz
Samuel T. blew off the line-up of sheep at the base of Easterly’s hill, shooting his Jag around the Mercedeses, Audis, Porsches, and limos, and waving at the parkers who tried to flag him down so he’d stop.
2015 July, J. R. Ward [pseudonym; Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore], chapter 31, in The Bourbon Kings, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 273:On a bridge that leads from Nile Street to the café in Tahrir Square where [Naguib] Mahfouz takes his morning coffee, there is often a beggar working his way among cars stuck in the city’s perpetual traffic jam. One of his legs is missing, and he hops up to the windows of the Mercedeses and Fiats on his remaining, bare foot.
1989 November, Christopher Dickey, “At the Ali Baba Café”, in Vanity Fair, volume 52, number 11, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 240:Anton and I saw each of them pull up in their Mercedeses and BMWs and park quasi-legally within a convenient distance of the diner.
2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 322:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedeses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| Mercedes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
Translations (28)
ru Мерседе́с (short form of Mercedes Benz) · de Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ro merțan (short form of Mercedes Benz) · sh Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · pt Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · mr मर्सिडीझ (short form of Mercedes Benz) · fr Merco (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ka მერსედესი (short form of Mercedes Benz) · acw مرسيدس (short form of Mercedes Benz) · gl Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · it Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · mk Мерце́дес (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ro Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · mk Ме́рџо (short form of Mercedes Benz) · fi Mersu (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ru Мерс (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ko 벤츠 (short form of Mercedes Benz) · pl Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ko 메르세데스 (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ja ベンツ (short form of Mercedes Benz) · sv Merca (short form of Mercedes Benz) · fr Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · vi Mẹc-xe-đét (short form of Mercedes Benz) · hi मर्सिडीज़ (short form of Mercedes Benz) · tr Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz) · mk Ме́чка (short form of Mercedes Benz) · ja メルセデス (short form of Mercedes Benz) · fr Mercedes (short form of Mercedes Benz)