Definitions for runes

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runes rune

Spelling: [roon]

IPA: /run/

Runes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in runes (enrsu).

Definitions for runes

noun

1. any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing the Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from c200 to c1200, or a script used for inscriptions in a Turkic language of the 6th to 8th centuries from the area near the Orkhon River in Mongolia.
2. something written or inscribed in such characters.
3. an aphorism, poem, or saying with mystical meaning or for use in casting a spell.
4. a poem, song, or verse.

Origin of runes

1675-85; Old Norse rūn a secret, writing, runic character; cognate with Old English rūn (Middle English rune, obsolete English roun). See round²

Examples for runes

Into these deepe sumes had Mr. Allerton rune them in tow years, for in ye later end of ye year 1628.

Is the boy of so much importance that I must carve his rune on a separate stick?

Their voices were like the rune of the heart of the forest, like the music of deep streams.

On the top of the armring there was a small fingerring with a rune graved upon it.

To effecte which, they resolved to rune a high course, and of great adventure, not knowing otherwise how to bring it aboute.

The seventh rune was the rune of Death, from the quenching of a gnat to the fading of the stars.

In the Kalevala it is a bee that brings the honey which restores Lemminkinen; rune 15, 530.

The fourth rune was the rune of the Green Trees and of all things that grow.

The eighth rune was the rune of the Soul that dieth not, and the Spirit that is.

What is the rune that is said for the throwing into the sea of the sins of the dead?