Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Hindu Puranas, the god of love; in later Hindu writings, sensual desire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
  • noun Desire; animal passion

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  • proper noun religion, Hinduism The Hindu god of love.
  • proper noun A major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Hindu god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara

Etymologies

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From Russian Кама (Káma).

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Examples

  • Never was he more a god in Kama's mind than in the last days of the south-bound traverse, as the failing Indian watched him, ever to the fore, pressing onward with urgency of endurance such as Kama had never seen nor dreamed could thrive in human form.

    Chapter V 2010

  • Never was he more a god in Kama's mind than in the last days of the south-bound traverse, as the failing Indian watched him, ever to the fore, pressing onward with urgency of endurance such as Kama had never seen nor dreamed could thrive in human form.

    Chapter V 1910

  • Toilets themed in Kama Sutra designs, at one of London's trendier nightspots.

    Boing Boing 2005

  • Important information stored on home computers could be wiped clean by an e-mail virus called Kama Sutra that is timed to strike today.

    News Tom's Hardware US 2009

  • Her first owner, a down-and-out-looking young man that my wife, Carolynne, and I met at a Moscow street market, told us that he would rather give the adorable little kitten he called Kama Sutra away for free than subject her to another train ride like the 25-hour journey that took her from the Black Sea coast to the Russian capital.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • That, in fact, was probably why her mother Surya, always fond of a clever joke, had sometimes called him "Kama" -a word and a god that encompassed every aspect of love.

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The Spoonful were actually signed with a new record company called Kama Sutra, and that was our next stop.

    Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010

  • The Spoonful were actually signed with a new record company called Kama Sutra, and that was our next stop.

    Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010

  • The Spoonful were actually signed with a new record company called Kama Sutra, and that was our next stop.

    Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010

  • The travellers bound to that bourne embark here on steamers that go down the Volga as far as its confluence with the Kama, a tributary stream, and thence ascend the Kama, which is navigable all the way to Perm.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

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