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say it: roon
rune is a noun meaning "any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages". It is pronounced /ˈɹun/ — roon. It carries one recorded sense.
any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages
“each rune had its own magical significance”
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 rune come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.