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(AV-uh-tahr) In Hinduism, a god made visibly present, especially in a human form. The Buddha is considered an avatar of the god Vishnu.	1
‡ By extension, an “avatar” is any new embodiment of an old idea.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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