(not comparable) Made of the metal iron. / (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.

(transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases. / (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group. / (countable) A single atom of this element.

An island of the Bismarck Archipelago, a German colony from 1884 to 1921; governed by Australia from 1921 and then by Papua New Guinea from 1975 to the present day.

A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.

(historical) Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq. / Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.

A person from Iran or of Iranian descent.

(linguistics) Pertaining to the Iranian languages or their speakers.

(nonstandard) Persian (language)

(Of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony. / (proscribed) Odd or coincidental; strange. / (preceded with "being") Acting in a unserious and teasing manner.