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say it: AV-uh-tahr
avatar is a noun meaning "a new personification of a familiar idea". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a new personification of a familiar idea
“the embodiment of hope”
“the incarnation of evil”
“the very avatar of cunning”
the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form
“some Hindus consider Krishna to be an avatar of the god Vishnu”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for avatar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.