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say it: zen
zen is a noun meaning "school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan". It is pronounced /ˈzɛn/ — zen. It carries 3 recorded senses.
school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan
a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
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 zen 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.