rune
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
rune (plural runes)
- A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
- A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
- A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol.
- A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 15:
- the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 15:
- (obsolete) A roun secret or mystery.
- (programming) In the Go programming language, a Unicode code point.
- French: rune
- German: Rune, Runenbuchstabe, Runenzeichen
- Italian: runa
- Portuguese: runa
- Russian: ру́на
- Spanish: runa
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