mirror
A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
Example
“I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.”
Other meanings
An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
“His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.”
A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
“Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.”
A kind of
- reflector
Kinds of mirror
- car mirror
- hand glass
- looking glass
Related words
- antimirror
- bemirror
- mirror-nearer merger
- mirror site
- clear as a mirror
- mirror pronouns
- do with mirrors
- fog a mirror
- hold a mirror to
- hold a mirror up to
- hold up a mirror to
- liquid mirror telescope
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "mīror" (wonder at).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mirror” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.