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noun
- (in the Ramayana) any of the three avatars of Vishnu: Balarama, Parashurama, or Ramachandra.
- variant of -orama, occurring as the final element in compounds when the first element is disyllabic and does not end in -r, used so that the entire word maintains the same number of syllables as panorama: Cinerama; telerama.
noun
- Phumiphon AduldetBhumibol Adulyadej, born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
noun
- (in Hindu mythology) any of Vishnu’s three incarnations (the heroes Balarama, Parashurama, or Ramachandra)
incarnation of Vishnu, from Sanskrit Ramah, literally “lovely,” from stem of ramate “stands still, rests, is pleased.”
noun suffix meaning “sight, view, spectacular display or instance of,” 1824, abstracted from panorama (q.v.), ultimately from Greek horama “sight, spectacle, that which is seen.”