avatar
pronunciation
How to pronounce avatar in British English:
UK [ˈævətɑ:(r)]
How to pronounce avatar in American English:
US ['ævətɑr]
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- Noun:
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form
Word Origin
- avatar (n.)
- 1784, "descent of a Hindu deity," from Sanskrit avatarana "descent" (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava- "off, down" (from PIE *au- (2) "off, away") + base of tarati "(he) crosses over," from PIE root *tere- (2) "to cross over" (see through). In computer use, it seems to trace to the novel "Snowcrash" (1992) by Neal Stephenson.
Example
- 1. No of course not - that 's just your dream avatar .
- 2. What about my own avatar ?
- 3. All dream characters are projections of your dream thoughts including your avatar .
- 4. One alternative would be to automatically capture information about your daily life and feed it directly into an avatar .
- 5. To date , however , there has been little effort to combine all this into anything resembling an avatar .