Mirage

Quick meaning: Mirage is a noun meaning (figuratively) An illusion.

Meaning

(figuratively) An illusion.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
2. 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.

Example Sentences

The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.

All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.

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 to end in deceit and disappointment.

Word Forms

• mirages
• miraging
• miraged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include light, fiction, utopia, fantasy, illusion, delusion.

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