Usually means: Liberation from suffering and rebirth.
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  1. nirvana: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nirvana: Merriam-Webster
  3. nirvana: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nirvana: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nirvana: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nirvana: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nirvana, nirvana: Wordnik
  8. nirvana: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nirvana: Wiktionary
  10. nirvana: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nirvana: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nirvana: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nirvana: Dictionary.com
  14. nirvana: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Nirvana: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nirvana: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Nirvana: Rhymezone
  19. Nirvana: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nirvana: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nirvana: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nirvana: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. nirvana: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Nirvana: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. nirvana: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. nirvana: Encyclopedia

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  1. nirvana, nirvana, nirvana: A Word A Day
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Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nirvana: Anthropological Terms

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noun:  (Buddhism) Complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
noun:  (non-Buddhist, colloquial) State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure or peace.

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