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Rune
//ɹuːn//
Synonyms for "rune" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
38 entriesShowing 16 of 38 words.
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1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 36 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- rune verb (letter or character)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- run verb (letter or character)
Bulgarian
2 entries- магически знак verb (mystical letter or mark)
- руна verb (letter or character)
Catalan
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 盧恩 /卢恩 verb (letter or character)
Danish
1 entries- rune verb (letter or character)
Dutch
1 entries- rune verb (letter or character)
Faroese
1 entries- rún verb (letter or character)
Finnish
4 entries- loitsu verb (mystical verse or song)
- mystinen merkki verb (mystical letter or mark)
- riimu verb (letter or character)
- riimukirjain verb (letter or character)
French
1 entries- rune verb (letter or character)
German
3 entries- Rune verb (letter or character)
- Runenbuchstabe verb (letter or character)
- Runenzeichen verb (letter or character)
Greek
1 entries- ρούνος verb (letter or character)
Hungarian
1 entries- rúna verb (letter or character)
Icelandic
1 entries- rún verb (letter or character)
Ingrian
1 entries- runo verb (Finnish or Scandinavian poem)
Irish
1 entries- rúnscríbhinn verb (letter or character)
Italian
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Japanese
3 entries- ルーン文字 verb (letter or character)
- 北欧古詩 verb (Finnish or Scandinavian poem)
- 北欧神話 verb (Finnish or Scandinavian poem)
Kazakh
1 entries- руна verb (letter or character)
Macedonian
1 entries- руна verb (letter or character)
Manx
1 entries- roon verb (letter or character)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- rune verb (letter or character)
- rune verb (Finnish or Scandinavian poem)
- runestav verb (letter or character)
- runetegn verb (letter or character)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- rune verb (letter or character)
- runestav verb (letter or character)
- runeteikn verb (letter or character)
Occitan
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Old Norse
1 entries- rún verb (letter or character)
Polish
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Portuguese
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Proto-Norse
1 entries- ᚱᚢᚾᛟ verb (letter or character)
Russian
1 entries- ру́на verb (letter or character)
Spanish
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Swedish
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Thai
1 entries- อักษรรูน verb (letter or character)
Turkish
2 entries- run verb (letter or character)
- rün verb (letter or character)
Uzbek
1 entries- runa verb (letter or character)
Volapük
1 entries- raunatonat verb (letter or character)
Welsh
2 entries- llythyren rwnig verb (letter or character)
- rŵn verb (letter or character)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Yet they made for man those mystic swords of superhuman workmanship engraved with magic runes and dipped when red hot in blood or in a broth of poisonous herbs and twigs.
Source: wiktionary
Runes were the letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, ultimately derived from the Mediterranean alphabets, which was used for carving on wood or stone and which to some extent survived the introduction of writing.
Source: wiktionary
And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
Source: wiktionary
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