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Mu

proper nounnounproper nounattested in dialogue

A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

Etymology

Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in the Mayan Madrid Codex using the De Landa alphabet), as the name of a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe; later identified as Atlantis by Augustus Le Plongeon.

noun

  1. 1

    μ (a mu particle)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μ (m).

proper noun

  1. 1

    Mu (a river in Burma).

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

Forms

plural
Mus
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).