Usually means: Optical illusion of distant water.
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  1. mirage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mirage: Merriam-Webster
  3. mirage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mirage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mirage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mirage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mirage, mirage: Wordnik
  8. mirage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mirage: Wiktionary
  10. mirage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mirage: Dictionary.com
  12. mirage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. mirage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Mirage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mirage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mirage: Rhymezone
  18. mirage, mirage (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mirage: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mirage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mirage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. mirage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. mirage: Infoplease Dictionary

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  1. mirage: Legal dictionary

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  1. mirage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mirage: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. mirage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Mirage: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  3. MIRAGE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mirage: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mirage, the mirage: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MIRAGE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
noun:  (figuratively) An illusion.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.

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