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# avatar

«avatar» in Mova's school dictionary: **A picture or character that stands for you in a game, app…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an avatar, avatars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A picture or character that stands for you in a game, app or online chat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#m1)

2) (Hinduism) In Hindu belief, a god appearing on Earth in a human or animal form, like Krishna as an avatar of Vishnu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#m2)

3) (formal) A person who perfectly shows an idea: «an avatar of kindness». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In computing lessons and online safety, your avatar can be a cartoon instead of a real photo, which is safer. In games you design and dress your avatar. In religious education it is a Hindu word from Sanskrit. Also the name of films and a cartoon.

### examples

- I made a dragon avatar for my game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#x1)
- Use a cartoon avatar instead of your real photo online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#x2)
- My avatar has blue hair and a cape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#x3)
- In Hindu stories, Rama is an avatar of the god Vishnu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#x4)
- She changed her avatar to a picture of her cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#x5)
- The avatar walked across the virtual world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/#x6)

### note

Say «AV-uh-tar». Countable. The Hindu meaning is the original one; the computing meaning is newer. Online safety: an avatar should not show your face, school or address.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «avatar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avatar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.