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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Hindu god of friendship and alliances, usually invoked together with Varuna as an upholder of order, punisher of falsehood, supporter of heaven and earth, and bringer of rain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of Mitridæ having a heavy long fusiform shell with well-developed spire and plicate columella, likened to a bishop's miter.
  • noun A genus of acalephs.
  • noun In Greek antiquity, along band of stuff, leather, or metal, bound about the head or loins: much used by women. It is mentioned in the Iliad and has been found on archaic statuettes discovered in excavations at Delphi, Olympia, and elsewhere. Although often made of metal not a single example has come down to us complete.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun An important divinity of Indic culture, descended, together with the Zoroastrian yazata Mithra, from a common Proto-Indo-Iranian deity *Mitra, a god of the oath.
  • proper noun Proto-Indo-Iranian deity, a god of the oath.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Hindu god of friendship and alliances; usually invoked together with Varuna as a supporter of heaven and earth

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Sanskrit Mitraḥ, from mitraḥ, friend; see mei- in Indo-European roots.]

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