Avatar

Quick meaning: Avatar is a noun meaning (Hinduism) An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.

Meaning

(Hinduism) An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.

More Meanings

1. The embodiment of an idea or concept; an instantiation, especially a personification or incarnation.
2. (Internet, video games) A digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.
3. (Internet, video games) A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in nonvirtual, nonmetaversal ones.

Example Sentences

...that a new avatar of Mrs. Siddons has appeared at Covent Garden, in the shape of her niece Fanny Kemble.

The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.

A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

And honest Alan, who was a grim fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, […] [Contrasting the historical Alan Breac with his incarnation in the novel.]

Word Forms

• avatars
• avatara

Synonyms for avatar

Depending on context, synonyms include embodiment, incarnation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incarnation, embodiment, personification, awatar, bhagwaan, aspect.

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