Word Meanings - SARASWATI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.

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• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• BRAHMANISM; BRAHMINISM
  The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
• BRAHMANIST; BRAHMINIST
  An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
• GODDESS
  1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• HINDOOISM; HINDUISM
  The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• HINDOOSTANEE; HINDUSTANI
  Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. -- n.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• BRAHMANESS
  A Brahmani.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• HINDOO CALENDAR; HINDU CALENDAR
  A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur . The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The
• POETRY
  1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions,
• BRAHMA
  The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. Note: According to the Hindoo religious books, Brahma (with the final a short), or Brahm, is the
• MUSICALNESS
  The quality of being musical.
• SAKTI
  The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• SEA GODDESS
  A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
• UNLEARN
  1. To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner. 2. To fail to learn. Dr. H. More.
• UNLEARNED
  1. Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate. 2. Not gained by study; not known. 3. Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. -- Un*learn"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*learn"ed*ness, n.
• OVERLEARNED
  Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.
• MISLEARN
  To learn wrongly.