Definitions for mirror

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mirror mir·ror

Spelling: [mir-er]

IPA: /ˈmɪr ər/

Mirror is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in mirror (imorrr).

Definitions for mirror

noun

1. a reflecting surface, originally of polished metal but now usually of glass with a silvery, metallic, or amalgam backing.
2. such a surface set into a frame, attached to a handle, etc., for use in viewing oneself or as an ornament.
3. any reflecting surface, as the surface of calm water under certain lighting conditions.
4. Optics. a surface that is either plane, concave, or convex and that reflects rays of light.
5. something that gives a minutely faithful representation, image, or idea of something else:
6. a pattern for imitation; exemplar:
7. a glass, crystal, or the like, used by magicians, diviners, etc.

Idioms

1. with mirrors, by or as if by magic.

adjective

1. Music. (of a canon or fugue) capable of being played in retrograde or in inversion, as though read in a mirror placed beside or below the music.

verb (used with object)

1. to reflect in or as if in a mirror.
2. to reflect as a mirror does.
3. to mimic or imitate (something) accurately.
4. to be or give a faithful representation, image, or idea of:

Origin of mirror

1175-1225; Middle English mirour Old French mireo(u)r, equivalent to mir- (see mirage) + -eo(u)r Latin -ātor -ator

Examples for mirror

And the mirror replied: “You, my queen, may have a beauty quite rare, but Little Snow White is a thousand times more fair.”

"I feel an awful fool in it," he murmured, glancing at his reflection in the mirror.

But she is, in her way, holding a mirror up to nature, and objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear.

The mirror instrument has this drawback, however—it does not 'record' the message.

Her stiff cap moved in the breeze as it swung from the corner of her mirror.

After that she must pin it on, and slip in to stand before his mirror and inspect the result.

In it, he finds a large mirror, and when he looks into the mirror, he sees his parents standing behind him.

He runs to find his friend Ron to show him his parents in the mirror.

But when Ron looks into the mirror, he sees himself being carried on the shoulders of his teammates, the hero who won the game.

Over the seat is a mirror cut into small squares by wooden muntins.