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AVESTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Avesta mean?
• AVESTA (noun)
The noun AVESTA has 1 sense:
1. a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries
Familiarity information: AVESTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Avesta; Zend-Avesta
Instance hypernyms:
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Derivation:
Avestan (of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism))
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