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Definition of rune - Reverso English Dictionary
Noun
1.
historical writingancient character used in writing by Germanic peoples
- The stone was inscribed with runes that told of ancient battles..
2.
magic symbolmysterious or magical symbol
- He wore a necklace adorned with a rune for protection..
3.
technologyTECH. Unicode code point in Go programming languageTECH.
- The rune represents a specific character in Go.
4.
literatureTECH. Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem or its divisionTECH.
- The bard recited a rune from the Kalevala.
Images of rune
ancient character used in writing by Germanic peoples
Origin of rune
Old Norse, rún (secret, mystery)
Examples of rune in a sentence
He studied the rune to understand its meaning. The ancient rune glowed in the dark. She found a rune carved into the old tree. Each rune in Go is an integer value. The function returns the rune for the character. The ancient rune told stories of gods and heroes.
Each rune in the collection was a masterpiece of storytelling.
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- French:rune, strophe, ...
- German:Rune, Epos, ...
- Italian:runa, runa magica, ...
- Spanish:runa, ...
- Portuguese:runa, runo, ...
- Chinese:符文, 魔法符号, ...
- Japanese:ルーン文字, 魔法のルーン, ...
- Arabic:رُون, رمز سحري, ...
- Hebrew:רוּנָה, סֵמֶל רוּנִי, ...
- Russian:руна, магическая руна, ...
- Ukrainian:руна, магічний символ, ...
- Hindi:रून, जादुई प्रतीक, ...
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