Definitions for mirages

mirages mi·rage

Spelling: [mi-rahzh]
IPA: /mɪˈrɑʒ/

Mirages is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in mirages (aegimrs).

Definitions for mirages

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 mirages

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

Examples for mirages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for mirages
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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