Definition: Meaning of, Little Mermaid, The in English to English dictionary.
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a FAIRY TALE by Hans Christian ANDERSEN in which a MERMAID (= a woman with a fish's tail who lives in the sea) changes her fish's tail for legs, even though this is very painful, because she loves a human prince. But the prince marries a human princess instead, and the little MERMAID dies.There is a STATUE of the Little Mermaid at the entrance to the HARBOUR in Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark.