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 disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
• A mirror carp.
• A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.

Verb

• Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.
• To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
• To reflect, as in a mirror.

Related

Similar words

• glass , looking glass

Origin

• From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor ("mirror"), from mirer, from Latin mīror ("wonder at"), from mīrus, from Proto-Indo-European *smey- ("to laugh, to be glad"). Displaced native , which was also the word for "spy."