Rune

Quick meaning: Rune is a noun meaning A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.

Meaning

A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.

More Meanings

1. Any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script).
2. A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
3. A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
4. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
5. (programming, in the Go programming language) A Unicode code point.
6. (intransitive, poetic, dated) To compose or perform poetry or songs.
7. (obsolete) Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”).

Example Sentences

"Finding you somewhere to live isn't going to be easy," he said. "We must cast the runes," said Catweazle. "They will tell us."

the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.

Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.

"Are the, um, eldritch runes supposed to glow like that?" "Dunno. I asked the distributor about 'em and he started shaking really fast like in a Tool video."

Word Forms

• runes
• runing
• runed

Synonyms for rune

Depending on context, synonyms include enchantment, hex, cantrip, chantment, charm, craft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include runestave, runestaff, stave, charact, thorn, roman.

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