mirage
/mɪˈɹɑːʒ/
mirage noun: an optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
Noun
mirage (plural mirages)
- An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
- An illusion.
- I remember hearing, that in the East the clear and azure waters seem to flow before the weary and parched traveller; yet a little further, and on he urges his weary way, but in vain—the fair stream is a delusion. Even thus happiness is the mirage which leads us over the desert of life, ever fated...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 68
Verb
mirage (third-person singular simple present mirages, present participle miraging, simple past and past participle miraged)
- To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
- All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
- The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.1901, A. E. W. Mason, Ensign Knightley and Other Stories
mirage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mirage in Hindi
- an optical phenomenon
- मरीचिका marīcikā, मृगतृष्णा mŕgtŕṣṇā
mirage in Tamil
- an optical phenomenon
- கானல் நீர் kāṉal nīr, கானனீர் kāṉaṉīr, கானல் kāṉal
mirage in Marathi
- mirage
- मृगजळ mrugjaḷ
mirage in Urdu
- an optical phenomenon
- سراب sarāb
More languagesFewer languages
- mirage in Bengali
- মরীচিকা moricika
- mirage in Telugu
- ఎండమావి eṇḍamāvi
- mirage in Malayalam
- മൃഗതൃഷ്ണ, മൃഗങ്ങൾക്ക് ജലാശ ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നത്, മരീചിക, വ്യാമോഹമുളവാക്കുന്ന സംഗതി
- mirage in Kannada
- ಕುಂಬಿ, ಬಿಸಿಲುಕುದುರೆ, ಬಿಸಿಲ್ಗುದುರೆ, ಬಿಸಿಲುಗುದುರೆ
- mirage in Punjabi
- ਮਿਰੈਜਿੰਗ, ਮਿਰਜਿੰਗ, ਮਿਰਜ਼ਿੰਗ
- mirage in Gujarati
- મૃગજળ mŕgjaḷ, ઓસ os
- mirage in Odia
- ମିରାଏଜ୍, ମିରାଜିଂ
- mirage in Sanskrit
- मरीचिका marīcikā
- mirage in Assamese
- মৰীচিকা morisika
- mirage in Nepali
- मिराजिङ, मिर्यागिङ, मिरजिङ
- mirage in Tagalog
- malikmata
- mirage in Arabic
- سَرَاب sarāb
- mirage in Malay
- fatamorgana, logamaya
- mirage in Indonesian
- fatamorgana
- mirage in Persian
- سراب sarâb, گوراب gurâb, تیژه tiže, گتیر gatir
- mirage in Thai
- มิราจ mírâat, ภาพลวงตา pâappáluang dtaa
- mirage in Vietnamese
- ảo ảnh
- mirage in Myanmar
- လင်းလပ် lang:lap, တံလျှပ် tamhlyap
Examples of mirage in a sentence
- The thing about Joker that specifically appeals to clowncels is the heroic mirage imparted on the Joker.
- These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.
- Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality.
Forms of mirage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mirages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mirages |
| present participle | miraging |
| past participle | miraged |
| past | miraged |
Origin of mirage
An unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
Words formed from mirage
Phrases with mirage
Words that rhyme with mirage
- triage
- dressage
- gavage
- montage
- ménage
- arbitrage
- balayage
- badinage
- chantage
- coupage
- parfilage
- paysage
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Questions about mirage
- What does mirage mean?
- Mirage means an optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
- What is mirage in Hindi?
- Mirage in Hindi is मरीचिका (marīcikā), मृगतृष्णा (mŕgtŕṣṇā). See Mirage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mirage?
- Mirage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mirage?
- Mirage is pronounced /mɪˈɹɑːʒ/.
- What is the plural of mirage?
- The plural of mirage is mirages.
Words near mirage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mirage (page history and authors); मृगजळ (Marathi) (page history and authors); mirage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mirage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mirage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ઓસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); mirage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mirage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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