Definitions for mirage

mirage mi·rage

Spelling: [mi-rahzh]
IPA: /mɪˈrɑʒ/

Mirage is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in mirage (aegimr).

Definitions for mirage

noun

  1. an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
  2. something illusory, without substance or reality.
  3. (initial capital letter) Military. any of a series of supersonic, delta-wing, multirole French fighter-bombers.

Origin of mirage

1795-1805; French, equivalent to (se) mir(er) to look at (oneself), be reflected (Latin mīrārī to wonder at) + -age -age

Examples for mirage

Instead, just as one who prefers a dreamworld to reality predictably would, what he saw (and responded to) is a mirage.

I found it beckoning, almost like a mirage, in the form of the Vino Volo wine bar.

This week they got Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock over at the mirage, where the fake volcano blows up every twenty minutes.

The ER—at least on the surface—is a mirage to many of these inconveniences.

I've often seen the mirage, generally about dark, far out on the western plains.

They stretch forth their hands to gather the mirage into their bosom.

"A dream," he thought, "a mirage of the mind;" and he compelled himself to go up.

All these things shimmered and flickered and wavered in the mirage of noon.

The stability the military purports to bring to Egypt is a mirage; seeking shelter in its cool waters will prove disastrous.

You are no delusion—no mirage, but Rima, like no other being on earth.

Word Value for mirage
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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