rune
A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
Other meanings
A letter from any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script).
A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
Synonyms
- runic letter
Related words
- runemistress
- Runic
- runish
- moonrunes
- rune bag
- rune book
- runecarver
- runecast
- runecaster
- runecasting
- rune cloth
- runecraft
Word history
From Old Norse "rún".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “rune” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; 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.