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mirage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French mirage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?????d?/
- IPA(key): /m??????/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
mirage (plural mirages)
- An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
- Hypernym: optical illusion
- Hyponym: Fata Morgana
- (figuratively) An illusion.
Translations
Verb
mirage (third-person singular simple present mirages, present participle miraging, simple past and past participle miraged)
- (transitive) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
Further reading
- mirage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Margie, gamier, imager, maigre
French
Etymology
mirer +? -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.?a?/
Noun
mirage m (plural mirages)
- mirage
Descendants
Further reading
- “mirage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- émigra
- gémira
- germai
- maigre
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nightmare
English
Alternative forms
- night-mare (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English night-mare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night +? mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”). Cognate with Scots nichtmare and nichtmeer, Dutch nachtmerrie, Middle Low German nachtm?r, German Nachtmahr.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?na?t.m??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /na?t.m???/, [n???.m???]
Noun
nightmare (plural nightmares)
- (now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep. [from 14th c.]
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare.
- 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Black Cat’:
- I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart!
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- (now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. [from 16th c.]
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
- Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:
- A very bad or frightening dream. [from 19th c.]
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
- (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. [from 20th c.]
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
Synonyms
- (demon said to torment sleepers): incubus, succubus, night hag
Related terms
- nightmarish
- daymare
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