Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - nirvana
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1. In the Hindu and Buddhist religions, Nirvana is the highest spiritual state that can possibly be achieved. Entering the realm of Nirvana is only possible for those who have become pure. N-UNCOUNT 2. People sometimes refer to a state of complete happiness and peace as nirvana. Many businessmen think that a world where relative prices never varied would be nirvana. = paradise N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Sanskrit nirva?a, literally, act of extinguishing, from nis- out + vati it blows — more at wind Date: 1801 1. the final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness 2. a. a place or state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality; also bliss, heaven b. a goal hoped for but apparently unattainable ; dream • nirvanic adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (in Buddhism) perfect bliss and release from karma, attained by the extinction of individuality. Etymology: Skr. nirvana f. nirva be extinguished f. nis out + va- to blow ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1836, from Skt. nirvana-s "extinction, disappearance" (of the individual soul into the universal), lit. "to blow out, a blowing out" ("not transitively, but as a fire ceases to draw;" a literal Latinization would be de-spiration), from nis-, nir- "out" + va "to blow." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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