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mir  (mîr)
n.
A village community of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
[Russian, commune, peace, from Old Church Slavonic mir, peace, possibly of Iranian origin.]
mir Russian [mir]
n pl miri [ˈmiri]
(Historical Terms) a peasant commune in prerevolutionary Russia
[literally: world]
Mir [mɪə]
n
(Astronautics) the Russian (formerly Soviet) manned space station launched in February 1986 and scuttled in 2001
[Russian: peace]
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Haignere was an astronaut with the French space agency CNES, flying on a mission to the MIR space station in 1996 and to the International Space Station in 2001, the first European woman to do so.
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