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Grammar : Noun
Spell : av-uh-tahr, av-uh-tahr
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæv əˌtɑr, ˌæv əˈtɑr

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Origin :
  • 1784, "descent of a Hindu deity," from Sanskrit avatarana "descent" (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava- "down" + base of tarati "(he) crosses over," from PIE root *tere- "to cross over" (see through). In computer use, it seems to trace to the novel "Snowcrash" (1992) by Neal Stephenson.
  • As in embodiment : noun representation, manifestation
Example sentences :
  • And is this genial old heretic an American avatar of the monk Bohaira?
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • He had a morbid vision of avatar after avatar being kicked from sphere to sphere.
  • Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
  • Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment.
  • Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda
  • But some day it will reassert itself, for it is stronger than we, alike our overlord and avatar.
  • Extract from : « Atlantic Classics » by Various
  • The Avatar we do not allow—the illustrious periodical we do.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 20, 1841 » by Various
  • And this strange spectacle had the transparency of an avatar.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Laughs » by Victor Hugo
  • His first Avatar is of the Fish, as related in the Mahabharata.
  • Extract from : « Ten Great Religions » by James Freeman Clarke
  • In the eighth Avatar he appears as Krishna and in the ninth as Buddha.
  • Extract from : « Ten Great Religions » by James Freeman Clarke
  • The second Avatar was in a Turtle, to make the drink of immortality.
  • Extract from : « Ten Great Religions » by James Freeman Clarke

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