OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 318

avatar

/əʋ(ə)t̪ɑr/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
avatar • encarnación
An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
materialización • personificación
The embodiment of an idea or concept; an instantiation, especially a personification or incarnation.
...that a new avatar of Mrs. Siddons has appeared at Covent Garden, in the shape of her niece Fanny Kemble...
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, […] [Contrasti…
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