mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɹ.ə/
ipa: /ˈmiɹ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹ.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɜɹ/
ipa: /ˈməɹ.a/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹ.əɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɪrə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɪˈrɜ(r)/
homophone: mere
homophone: myrrh
homophone: mur (all in some North American accents only)
rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mirrors
form: mirrour
Etymology: From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".
Senses: examples: text: I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.
text: He broke the mirror with the pickaxe.
text: We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.
synonyms: glass
looking-glass
glosses: A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
examples: text: His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.
text: O goddess, heavenly bright, / Mirror of grace and majesty divine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
examples: text: Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
glosses: A mirror carp.
glosses: A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
Hyponyms: acoustic mirror
black mirror
Bragg mirror
burning mirror
cheval mirror
Chinese magic mirror
conjugate mirror
distorting mirror
dressing mirror
fold mirror
funhouse mirror
gossip mirror
half-silvered mirror
handmirror
ion mirror
liquid mirror
magic mirror
magnetic mirror
milk mirror
one-way mirror
parabolic mirror
plane mirror
rear-view mirror
rearview mirror
rear-vision mirror
rear vision mirror
shaving mirror
side mirror
side-view mirror
skinny mirror
sound mirror
spherical mirror
street mirror
submirror
trumeau mirror
two-way mirror
wing mirror
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from mirror (noun)
word: antimirror
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word: bemirror
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word: clear as a mirror
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word: do with mirrors
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word: fog a mirror
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word: hold a mirror to
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word: hold a mirror up to
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word: hold up a mirror to
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word: liquid mirror telescope
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word: look at oneself in the mirror
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word: man in the mirror
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word: metamirror
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word: micromirror
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word: mirrorable
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word: mirror armor
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word: mirror armour
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word: mirror bacterium
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word: mirror ball
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word: mirror canon
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word: mirror dweller
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word: mirror fugue
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word: mirrorful
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word: mirror image
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word: mirror-image twin
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word: mirrorize
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word: mirrorless
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word: mirror life
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word: mirrorlike
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word: mirror-like
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word: mirror match
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word: mirror matter
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word: mirror-nearer merger
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word: mirror neuron
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word: mirror punishment
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word: mirrorscope
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word: mirror server journal
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word: mirrorshades
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word: mirror stage
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word: mirror symmetry
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word: mirror syndrome
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word: mirror test
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word: mirror theory
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word: mirrortocracy
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word: mirrortree
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word: mirror twin
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word: mirror universe
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word: Mirrorverse
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word: mirror will
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word: mirrorwise
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word: mirrorwork
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word: mirrory
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word: mismirror
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word: mouth mirror
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word: multimirror
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word: nanomirror
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word: pentamirror
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word: remirror
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word: supermirror
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word: time reversal mirror
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word: unmirrored