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mythril

mythril is the alternative spelling of mithril.

Meaning of mithril

Noun

mithril (uncountable)

  1. A fictional silvery metal of great strength and value, primarily in fantasy and role-playing settings.
    • ‘The wealth of Moria was not in gold and jewels, the toys of the Dwarves; nor in iron, their servant. Such things they found here, it is true, especially iron; but they did not need to delve for them: all things that they desired they could obtain in traffic. For here alone in the world was found...1954, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC; republished Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin...

Origin of mythril

Same etymology as mithril, with the spelling influenced by myth or mythical.

Questions about mythril

What is mythril the alternative spelling of?
Mythril is the alternative spelling of mithril.

Words near mythril in the dictionary

  1. mythopœists
  2. mythopœsis
  3. mythos
  4. mythoses
  5. mythpunk
  6. mythril
  7. myths
  8. mythscape
  9. mythscapes
  10. mythus
  11. mythuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mythril (page history and authors); mithril (page history and authors). 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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