English edit

Etymology edit

mer- +‎ prince

Noun edit

merprince (plural merprinces)

  1. (fantasy) A merman who is a prince.
    • 2003, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Sea Slug[1], Random House Children's Publishing UK, published 2012, →ISBN:
      We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle.
    • 2005, Tracey V. Bateman, Kansas Home: Hearts Adrift Find a Place to Dwell in Four Romantic Stories, Barbour Publishing Incorporated, →ISBN, page 49:
      She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.
    • 2005, Rachel Roberts, The Heart of Avalon, CDS Books, →ISBN, page 18:
      Down the beach, a group of mergirls and boys were facing off with the same merprince who'd spoken through the mirror.