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• Miró
  Miró

  noun

  Gabriel 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
• miro
  miro

  noun

  a tall New Zealand coniferous timber tree, Podocarpus ferrugineus , with large red fruit

Miró

American  

[mee-roh, mee-raw] / miˈroʊ, miˈrɔ /

noun

1. Gabriel 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.

2. Joan 1893–1983, Spanish painter.

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Miró ¹ British  

/ miˈro /

noun

1. Joan (xwan). 1893–1983, Spanish surrealist painter

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miro ² British  

/ ˈmiːrɒ /

noun

1. a tall New Zealand coniferous timber tree, Podocarpus ferrugineus , with large red fruit

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Etymology

Origin of miro

Māori

Example Sentences

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Miró miro

Organized in roughly reverse-chronological order by curator Katherine Brinson with support from Charlotte Youkilis and Bellara Huang, the solo show opens with a surprise courtesy of an unlikely source: Joan Miró.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He was also a surrealist painter and exhibited his work around the world alongside artists such as Joan Miró.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

All of the lenders for a forthcoming Joan Miró exhibition said they were happy with the changes, Vega said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

So I think there’s an effort in the last few years of revisiting what Surrealism is and not just thinking about Max Ernst, Dalí, Miró, Magritte … but also including different voices and different geographies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Unlike Dali or Miró, neither became a household name.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022

“A veces, lo miro y digo, ‘Wow,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Latcherdom me a tāni kāli chavi of panj besh chorin levina avrī miro curro. 

From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

Belgra sho mille pu cado Cosvarri; hin oter miro chabo.

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow

De hadzin e Birengere miro lowe, dale mangawa me len de bidschin jon mire lowe gadder o foro Naile abbi Bidschebasger wurtum sikk. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

Tute haws te chores m’ri all,   Tutes dukkered būti Tu shan miro jivaben   Me t’vel paller tute.

From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland