Definitions for nirvana

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nirvana nir·va·na

Spelling: [nir-vah-nuh, -van-uh, ner-]

IPA: /nɪrˈvɑ nə, -ˈvæn ə, nər-/

Nirvana is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in nirvana (aainnrv).

Definitions for nirvana

noun

1. (often initial capital letter). Pali nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion: attained by the Arhat as his goal but postponed by the Bodhisattva.
2. (often initial capital letter) Hinduism. salvation through the union of Atman with Brahma; moksha.
3. a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.

Origin of nirvana

First recorded in 1830-40, nirvana is from the Sanskrit word nirvāṇa

Examples for nirvana

And because the Buddha had reached heaven (nirvana), it would be useless to pray to him.

Earnestness is the path of immortality (nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death.

The sultry chanteuse enraged the daughter of late nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain with comments she made about wanting to die young.

nirvana is attained when passions are Extinct and when the heart is blessed with peace.

For Nicki Minaj, nirvana could only be reached when all of the world knew exactly what her butt looks like.

Part of the short version was used as an intro to the nirvana single “Love Buzz,” and is referred to as “Buzz Cut.”

This is nirvana, the end to which we must all strive, the only end that there can be to the trouble of the world.

They are transient things, I yearn for the Immortal state, nirvana.

Gone were female-led and feminist-sympathetic bands like nirvana and the Beastie Boys.

When I was growing up they called Green Day and nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins “alternative pop.”