Meaning

2 senses
  1. A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.

    Opiat

    опиа́тopiát

    опіатopiat

    a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative

  2. Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Religion is the opiate of the masses.

    Релігія - опіум для народу. — deniko

    ruРелигия - опиум для народа. — Tonari

    deDie Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. — BraveSentry

  2. When was the last time you used opiates?

  3. Opiates are the religion of the people.

    deOpiate sind die Religion des Volkes. — rul · CC BY 2.0 FR

  4. What did Karl Marx mean when he said that religion was the opiate of the masses?

  5. Do you use opiates like morphine, Percocet, Vicodin, and OxyContin, that are not prescribed to you?

Translations

8 languages
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By meaning 1
drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium:
Русский
By meaning 1
drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium:

Origin

From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.

From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.

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Forms

plural: opiates
Singularopiate
Pluralopiates

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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