Meaning of अमृत in English
- The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
- An unguent of the gods.
- A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
- Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
- A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
- An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
- The refined spirit; the quintessence.
- Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
- The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
- A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
- Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
- Ambrosial.
- Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.
- An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.
- To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
- A seething; digestion.
- Nectareous.
- Of or pertaining to a nectary.
- Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.
- Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar.
- Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean.
- Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.
- Having a nectary.
- A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
- That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.
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