Usually means: Compassionate being aspiring to enlightenment.
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  1. bodhisattva: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bodhisattva, bodhisattva: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bodhisattva: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Bodhisattva: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bodhisattva: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bodhisattva, bodhisattva: Wordnik
  7. bodhisattva: Wiktionary
  8. bodhisattva: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Bodhisattva: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bodhisattva: Dictionary.com
  11. Bodhisattva: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Bodhisattva (film), Bodhisattva (song), Bodhisattva: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bodhisattva: Rhymezone
  14. bodhisattva: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bodhisattva: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bodhisattva: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bodhisattva: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Bodhisattva: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Bodhisattva: Encyclopedia

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bodhisattva)

noun:  (Buddhism) A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment.
noun:  (Buddhism) An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.

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