nirvana
pronunciation
How to pronounce nirvana in British English:
UK [nɪəˈvɑːnə]
How to pronounce nirvana in American English:
US [nɪrˈvɑːnə]
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- Noun:
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Word Origin
- nirvana (n.)
- 1836, from Sanskrit nirvana-s "extinction, disappearance" (of the individual soul into the universal), literally "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" (see wind (n.1)). Figurative sense of "perfect bliss" is from 1895.
Example
- 1. Designing your own space is nirvana . It 's unimaginably fantastic .
- 2. The festival commemorates the birth and enlightenment of buddha and his attainment of nirvana .
- 3. Dr myrskyla 's data , however , suggest the ultimate outcome of development may not be a collapsing population at all but , rather , the environmentalist 's nirvana of uncoerced zero population growth .
- 4. More must do so , until , in some far-off legal nirvana , africa will not need the icc at all .
- 5. For years sweden has represented a sort of nirvana for the left .