incarnation
An incarnate being or formAn incarnate being or form.
» You're the incarnation of Peter Pan.
Meaning
9 senses(countable, uncountable)An incarnate being or form.
Verkörperung
воплоще́ниеvoploščénije, олицетворе́ниеolicetvorénije
вті́ленняvtílennja, уосо́бленняuosóblennja
time passed in a particular bodily form
(countable, uncountable)A version or iteration (of something).
(countable, uncountable)A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
воплоще́ниеvoploščénije
(countable, uncountable)An assumption of human form or nature.
воплоще́ниеvoploščénije
(countable, uncountable)A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
воплоще́ниеvoploščénije, олицетворе́ниеolicetvorénije
уосо́бленняuosóblennja, вті́ленняvtílennja
(countable, uncountable)The act of incarnating.
воплоще́ниеvoploščénije
(countable, uncountable)The state of being incarnated.
воплоще́ниеvoploščénije
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Examples
4 sentencesYou're the incarnation of Peter Pan.
Budai statues depict a fat and happy incarnation of Buddha.
It's been centuries since money lost its paper and coin incarnations. They're just digits in the computer now.
In the Hindu religion, an "avatar" is an incarnation, in tangible human or animal form, of an ethereal deity.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval LatinFrom Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
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Forms
plural: incarnations| Singular | incarnation |
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Synonyms
5 synonyms- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.:personification
- a new personification of a familiar idea:embodimentavatar
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable