Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nirvana"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nirvana \Nir*va"na\, n. [Skr. nirv[=a][.n]a.]
In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of
the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific
enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by
annihilation or absorption into the divine. See {Buddhism}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nirvana
n 1: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the
cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction
of desire and individual consciousness
2: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: {eden},
{paradise}, {heaven}, {promised land}, {Shangri-la}]
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