voca: avatar

Merriam-Webster’s
Word of the Day

April 25

avatar

AV-uh-tar  

noun

Meaning

     1 : the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu)
     2 a : an incarnation in human form  b : an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person
    *3 : an electronic image that represents and is manipulated by a computer user (as in a computer game)

Example Sentence

     Before they started playing the game, Aaron and Kyle customized their avatars.

	See a map of "avatar" in the Visual Thesaurus.