Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ambrosia
IPA transcription: [æmbɹ'oʊʒə]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ambrosia, nectar
    Meaning: (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
  • Synonyms: ambrosia
    Meaning: fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
  • Synonyms: ragweed, ambrosia, bitterweed
    Meaning: any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
  • Synonyms: beebread, ambrosia
    Meaning: a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
Usage examples
  • Even the gods required water and food; they were immortal because they had drunk ambrosia and eaten from the plant of life.
  • On such a course was he now intent; and not without much inward palpitation did he betake himself to the quiet abode of wisdom, where Tom Towers was to be found o' mornings inhaling ambrosia and sipping nectar in the shape of toast and tea.