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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024am•bro•sia /æmˈbroʊʒə/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Mythologythe food of the ancient Greek and Roman gods.
- something delightful to the taste or smell.
am•bro•sial, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Am•bro•sian (am brō′zhən),USA pronunciation adj. - Roman Catholicism
- pertaining to the religious congregations under the protection of Saint Ambrose.
- pertaining to the ancient liturgy of the church of Milan.
- Roman Catholicism(l.c.) ambrosial.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024am•bro•sia (am brō′zhə),USA pronunciation n. - Mythology[Class. Myth.]the food of the gods. Cf. nectar (def. 3).
- something especially delicious to taste or smell.
- Fooda fruit dessert made of oranges and shredded coconut and sometimes pineapple.
- Latin
- Old French ambroise
- Greek: immortality, food of the gods, noun, nominal use of feminine of ambrósios, equivalent. to a- a-6 + -mbros- (combining form of brotōs mortal; akin to Latin mortuus dead, murder) + -ios adjective, adjectival suffix; replacing Middle English ambrose, ambrosie
- Latin
- 1545–55
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ambrosia /æmˈbrəʊzɪə/ n - the food of the gods, said to bestow immortality
Compare nectar - anything particularly delightful to taste or smell
- another name for beebread
Etymology: 16th Century: via Latin from Greek: immortality, from ambrotos, from a-1 + brotos mortalamˈbrosial, amˈbrosian adj |