Noun: mirror
| Singular | mirror |
| Plural | mirrors |
Sample Sentences
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I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.
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He broke the mirror with the pickaxe.
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We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.
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His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.
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O goddess, heavenly bright, / Mirror of grace and majesty divine. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.
Nouns inflected like mirror
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy". See: Middle English Nouns '
mirour', Latin Nouns '
mīror'.
Verbs referencing "mirror"
Finnish Nouns
mirrori.