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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mimir is a noun meaning "(Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom". It carries one recorded sense.
(Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom
Norse mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mimir come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.