Definitions for avatar

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avatar av·a·tar

Spelling: [av-uh-tahr, av-uh-tahr]

IPA: /ˈæv əˌtɑr, ˌæv əˈtɑr/

Avatar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in avatar (aaartv).

Definitions for avatar

noun

1. Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god.
2. an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.
3. Digital Technology. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.
4. Also called avatar mouse, mouse avatar. a mouse that is implanted with cells or tissue freshly extracted from a human being, as to test drug therapies for an individual patient or to study a disease process:
5. (in science fiction) a hybrid creature, composed of human and alien DNA and remotely controlled by the mind of a genetically matched human being.
6. Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god.
7. an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.
8. Digital Technology. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.
9. Also called avatar mouse, mouse avatar. a mouse that is implanted with cells or tissue freshly extracted from a human being, as to test drug therapies for an individual patient or to study a disease process:
10. (in science fiction) a hybrid creature, composed of human and alien DNA and remotely controlled by the mind of a genetically matched human being.

Origin of avatar

1775-85; Sanskrit avatāra a passing down, equivalent to ava down + -tāra a passing over

Examples for avatar

Discovered frozen in ice by two Inuit waterbenders, they begin a journey to help him access his full powers as avatar.

But some day it will reassert itself, for it is stronger than we, alike our overlord and avatar.

avatar is equally good at exploring moral ambiguity in its cast.

On the avatar sequels: The second, third and fourth films all go into production simultaneously.

Currently the project is on hold until I finish the currently planned avatar sequels, which will be a number of years.

Blood was its avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.

One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment.

He had a morbid vision of avatar after avatar being kicked from sphere to sphere.

And is this genial old heretic an American avatar of the monk Bohaira?

You know, James Cameron: the director of The Terminator, True Lies, Titanic, and avatar, among other obscure movies.

Discovered frozen in ice by two Inuit waterbenders, they begin a journey to help him access his full powers as avatar.

But some day it will reassert itself, for it is stronger than we, alike our overlord and avatar.

avatar is equally good at exploring moral ambiguity in its cast.

On the avatar sequels: The second, third and fourth films all go into production simultaneously.

Currently the project is on hold until I finish the currently planned avatar sequels, which will be a number of years.

Blood was its avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.

One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment.

He had a morbid vision of avatar after avatar being kicked from sphere to sphere.

And is this genial old heretic an American avatar of the monk Bohaira?

You know, James Cameron: the director of The Terminator, True Lies, Titanic, and avatar, among other obscure movies.