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# rune

«rune» in Mova's school dictionary: **A letter of an old alphabet used by Vikings and other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a rune, runes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A letter of an old alphabet used by Vikings and other Germanic peoples, carved on wood, stone or bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#m1)

2) A mark or symbol that is believed to have magic or secret meaning, as in fantasy stories and games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#m2)

3) A rune can also be a short magic chant or verse that is sung or spoken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, runes are the Viking alphabet (called the futhark) carved on rune stones. In fantasy books and games, runes are magical symbols. Phrases: rune stone, carved runes, ancient runes, to read the runes (UK idiom: to guess what will happen).

### examples

- The Vikings carved runes on stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x1)
- We wrote our names in runes in history class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x2)
- The runes on the old sword glowed in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x3)
- Rune stones can still be seen in Sweden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x4)
- The wizard read the runes in his spell book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x5)
- Some runes look like straight lines and arrows because they were easy to carve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x6)
- Into this his wife laid one of the logs he had cut, and began swinging it, crooning the while a rune beginning [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/#x7)

### note

Countable: a rune, runes. Adjective: runic. There is no proof runes ever had real magic; old people sometimes believed they did.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rune» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rune/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.