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8-letter words (1 found)

AMBROSIA,

7-letter words (4 found)

ABOMASI,ABROSIA,AMBARIS,MARABIS,

6-letter words (13 found)

ABOMAS,AMBARI,ARABIS,AROBAS,AROMAS,BISMAR,BRAAIS,IMBARS,ISOBAR,MARABI,MBIRAS,MORIAS,SAMBAR,

5-letter words (47 found)

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4-letter words (88 found)

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3-letter words (69 found)

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2-letter words (21 found)

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You can make 243 words from ambrosia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ambrosia

ambrosia

Etymology

From Latin ambrosia (“food of the gods”), from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ βροτός (brotós, “mortal”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /æmˈbɹoʊʒə/

Noun

ambrosia (countable and uncountable, plural ambrosias)

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
  2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The anointing-oil of the gods.
  3. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
  4. Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
  5. An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
  6. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
  7. Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
  8. A dessert made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.
  9. A plant of the genus Ambrosia.
    Synonym: ragweed

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Related terms

Translations

See also

  • manna (noun)
  • mead (noun)
  • nectar (noun)

Further reading

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ambrosia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • Ambrosia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Dysphania botrys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Bee pollen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ambrosia fungi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ambrosia (fruit salad) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ragweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Saboraim

Finnish

Etymology

From translingual Ambrosia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmbrosiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝mbro̞ˌs̠iɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): amb‧ro‧si‧a

Noun

ambrosia

  1. ambrosia

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ambrosia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ambrosia, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμβροσίᾱ (ambrosíā, “immortality”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /amˈbrɔ.zja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔzja
  • Hyphenation: am‧brò‧sia

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosie)

  1. ambrosia (all senses)
  2. (figurative) honeydew

Related terms

  • Ambrogio

Anagrams

  • arabismo, bramosia, brasiamo

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosía, “immortality”), from ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /amˈbro.si.a/, [ämˈbrɔs̠iä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /amˈbro.si.a/, [ämˈbrɔːs̬iä]

Noun

ambrosia f (genitive ambrosiae); first declension

  1. The food of the gods; ambrosia.
  2. The unguent of the gods.
  3. The plant, artemisia, of the genus Artemisia.
  4. An antidote to a poison.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • ambrosiacus

Related terms

  • ambrosius

Descendants

References

  • “ambrosia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ambrosia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ambrosia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “ambrosia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]
  • “ambrosia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ambrosia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

ambrosia f (plural ambrosias)

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) ambrosia (food of gods or delicious foods)

Swedish

Noun

ambrosia c

  1. (Greek mythology) ambrosia
  2. (figuratively) ambrosia (something very tasty)

Declension

See also

  • nektar

References

  • ambrosia in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • ambrosia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • ambrosia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org