mir
noun
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
mir
1 American
[meer, myeer ]
/ mɪər, mjir /
noun
Russian.
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miri
plural
MIr.
2
American
Or
M.Ir.
abbreviation
Mir
1
British
/ mɪə /
noun
mir
2
British
/ mir /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Mir1
C20: Russian: peace
Origin of mir2
literally: world
Example Sentences
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The couple were expecting a boy and had named him Miron after the Russian word mir, meaning peace.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2022
She’d sigh and say in Yiddish, “Es felt mir vi a lokh in kop.”
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2020
Performances of “Die Tote Stadt” were more or less limited to excerpts, like the popular aria “Glück, das mir verlieb.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
She licked bitter, gel- coated lips, staring at the little hunk of dwarf planet and orbital station she’d called home, with the Casi- mir Gate in orbit around it.
From The Verge ● Jun. 11, 2019
The Russian word mir means “world” or “village.”
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
"Outside the handicrafts sector there is not nearly enough local skilled labour available in Kashmir," said Mohammad Ashraf Mir of the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mir added that sharing data contributes to "systems that might not have your best interests at heart".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Members of the general public ask for them, including for their children, and doctors happily oblige, says Mir.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
“In the worst-case scenario, potentially fraudulent operators could, you know, full-on take the ID or resell it,” said Mir.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
March 13, 1986: Mir is powered up by the crew of Soyuz T-15.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Kash miri Moslem who had long been a friend of Nehru's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thogh paradis be miri and bright Cokaygn is of fairir sight.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Sunday sala miri pen te me ghion adoi te latchedon o ker.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
And I spoke suddenly, and said,— “Can tute rakker Romanes, miri dye?”
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
Rinkeno picture sas, pendom dikkav mande te miri penia te pralia kennā shomas bitti.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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