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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bodhisattva is a noun meaning "Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others". It carries one recorded sense.
Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others
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 bodhisattva come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.