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avatar
/ˈæv.ə.tɑɹ/
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What does avatar mean?
noun
- An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
- One which serves to act in place of or on behalf of the entity; a simulacrum.
- The embodiment of an idea or concept; an instantiation, especially an incarnation or personification.
More meanings (4)
noun
- One which serves as the means through which the entity interacts with its environment; a player character or host.
- A graphical representation of a user or persona; used in reference to any digital environment, but especially nonmetaversal ones.
- A character model, used virtually as an emulation of a user or their persona.
proper noun
- A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
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Of the avatar of Crishna known as Ballaji or Baal-Jah little is positively known.
Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.
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We need a Niuka again to repair the grand devastation; we await the great Avatar.
So in the twenty-first century some avatar of M. Figuier will perhaps describe the late professor Agassiz as the author of the Darwinian theory.
The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.