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MIr.
Middle Irish.
Also, M.Ir.
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Mir
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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World English Dictionary
mir (mir) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl miri | |
| a peasant commune in prerevolutionary Russia | |
| [literally: world] | |
| Mir (mɪə) | |
| —n | |
| the Russian (formerly Soviet) manned space station launched in February 1986 and scuttled in 2001 | |
| [C20: Russian: peace] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
Mir
space station, from Rus., lit. "peace, world," also "village, community," from O.C.S. miru "peace," from Proto-Slavic *miru "commune, joy, peace" ("possibly borrowed from Iranian" -Watkins), from PIE base *mei- "to bind" (see mitre). O.C.S. miru was "used in Christian terminology
as a collective 'community of peace' " [Buck], translating Gk. kosmos. Hence, "the known world, mankind."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| MIr Middle Irish |
| MIR microwave imaging radiometer |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
mir
in Russian history, a self-governing community of peasant households that elected its own officials and controlled local forests, fisheries, hunting grounds, and vacant lands. To make taxes imposed on its members more equitable, the mir assumed communal control of the community's arable land and periodically redistributed it among the households, according to their sizes (from 1720).
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Onboard the mir space station, he controlled the docking procedures among other things.
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