nirvana

Other forms of nirvana

plural

nirvanas·

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.

Questions about nirvana

What does nirvana mean?

nirvana means "(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nirvana?

nirvana has 3 syllables: nir-va-na. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /nɪɹˈvɑnə/.

What is another word for nirvana?

Close synonyms include enlightenment, Eden, paradise, heaven, promised land. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nirvana a common word?

nirvana is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.