Usually means: Liberation from suffering and rebirth.
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  1. nirvana: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nirvana: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nirvana: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nirvana: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nirvana: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nirvana, nirvana: Wordnik
  7. nirvana: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nirvana: Wiktionary
  9. nirvana: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nirvana: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nirvana: Infoplease Dictionary
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  15. Nirvana: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nirvana: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Nirvana: Rhymezone
  18. Nirvana: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nirvana: Free Dictionary
  20. nirvana: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nirvana: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  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, nirvana, nirvana: A Word A Day
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Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
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  1. nirvana: Anthropological Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.

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