Mercedes

1. countableuncountableA female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Mercy occasionally borrowed from Spanish.

   Mercedes moved away from Jack and gripping Rosa's hand – her own nails were too short – she took a pinch and inhaled it. Rosa kissed Mercedes on the lips then took a further nailful and offered it to Jack who shook his head.

   2010, Bill Vidal, The Aztec, page 73

2. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableA city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
   2. countableuncountableA city, the capital of Mercedes department, Corrientes province, Argentina.
   3. countableuncountableA department of Corrientes province, Argentina.
   4. countableuncountableA district of Heredia canton, Heredia province, Costa Rica.
   5. countableuncountableA municipality in Camarines Norte province, Philippines.
   6. countableuncountableA municipality in Eastern Samar province, Philippines.
   7. countableuncountableA city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States.
   8. countableuncountableA city, the capital of Soriano department, Uruguay.

plural Mercedeses

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of Mercedes-Benz (“a car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz”).

   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

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: Benz, Mercedes-Benz