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
And in “Als mir dein Lied erklang,” she was superb, singing with the combination of purity and humanity that characterizes the best Strauss ingénues.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
She’d sigh and say in Yiddish, “Es felt mir vi a lokh in kop.”
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 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
In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first British person to travel into space on an eight-day mission to the Mir Space Station.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Discovery is known for flying more miles in space than any other shuttle orbiter, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit and making an early rendezvous with Russia’s Mir space station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
"They have a set number of supplies and are told they must make them last for the whole month," Mir says.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The Mir Space Station wasn’t the first or only space station to orbit Earth, but it was the longest-lasting one, withstanding 15 years and 86,000 orbits.
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
Sunday sala miri pen te me ghion adoi te latchedon o ker.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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
Rinkeno picture sas, pendom dikkav mande te miri penia te pralia kennā shomas bitti.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
I said nothing for a few seconds, but looked at her intently, and then asked,— “Rakessa tu Romanes, miri pen?”
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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