ambrosia

nounfood of the gods

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noun food of the gods

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Word Origin & History

1550s, "favored food or drink of the gods," from Latin ambrosia, from Greek ambrosia "food of the gods," fem. of ambrosios, probably literally "of the immortals," from a- "not" (see a- (3)) + mbrotos, related to mortos "mortal," from PIE *mer- "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). Applied to certain herbs by Pliny and Dioscorides; used of various foods for mortals since 1680s (originally of fruit drinks); used figuratively for "anything delightful" by 1731.

Example Sentences for ambrosia

Ambrosia is lovely to my heart, for it was my mother's favorite.

I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further.

He goes on to state that the month is so called from the Lenaea, or from the Ambrosia.

“I suppose this is what they call nectar and ambrosia,” said Magnus.

He felt as Romulus might have felt when first invited to taste the ambrosia of the gods.

The relics of the bread and cheese were the ambrosia to this nectar.

This will be found a dish rivalling the ambrosia of high Olympus.

After their long diet of shrimps, it tasted like ambrosia to the two men.

At dinner that day the rice pudding had the flavor of ambrosia.

They are nectar and ambrosia for the spirit in the humblest shapes of the flesh.

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