ANNAPURNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Annapurna mean? 

• ANNAPURNA (noun)
  The noun ANNAPURNA has 2 senses:

1. wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: Hindu goddess of plenty

2. a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,500 feet high)

  Familiarity information: ANNAPURNA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNAPURNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: Hindu goddess of plenty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anapurna; Annapurna; Parvati

Instance hypernyms:

Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,500 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Anapurna; Annapurna

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Annapurna" is a part of...):

Kingdom of Nepal; Nepal (a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China)

Himalaya; Himalaya Mountains; Himalayas (a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain)