Rune

Definitions

1. A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
2. Any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script).
3. A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
4. A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
5. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
6. A Unicode code point.

Equivalents

21 more languages

العربيةالحرف الروني

Българскируна

Bosanskirunarunerunoруна+ 1 more

Catalàruna

Češtinarunarunový

Danskrune

Suomiloitsuriimuriimukirjainrunosalaisuus+ 2 more

Hrvatskirunarunerunoруна+ 1 more

Íslenskarún

Italianoruna

日本語ルーン文字北欧古詩北欧神話

Kurdîrûn

Latinaruna

Македонскируна

Nederlandsrune

Polskiruna

Portuguêsruna

Русскийруна

Српскиrunarunerunoруна+ 1 more

Svenskaruna

Türkçerun

Examples

“Yet they made for man those mystic swords of superhuman workmanship engraved with magic runes and dipped when red hot in blood or in a broth of poisonous herbs and twigs.”

“Runes were the letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, ultimately derived from the Mediterranean alphabets, which was used for carving on wood or stone and which to some extent survived the introduction of writing.”

“And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like⟳ the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow⟳ like⟳ that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.”

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

“"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."”

“Where the daylight peeps thro' like⟳ the glint of the Moon, / And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, / The Owls sit⟳ in council like⟳ prophets of Fate, / Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State.”

“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.”

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