mirror
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
- A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
- A mirror carp.
- A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
verb
- To reflect, as in a mirror.
- To act as a reflection of, either by being identical to, or by being identical but reversed.
- Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.
- To create something identical to (a website, etc.).
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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".
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