Ambrosia Synonyms

ăm-brōzhə, -zhē-ə
(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. nectar
  2. delicacy
  3. immortal food
  4. food of the gods
  5. milk and honey
  6. amrita
  7. delectable sustenance
  8. ragweed
  9. heavenly food
  10. savory fare
  11. blackstrap
  12. cate
  13. perfume
  14. edulcoration
  15. bitterweed
  16. honeypot
  17. saccharification
  18. sugar-making
A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. beebread

Ambrosia Sentence Examples

  • He tasted only ambrosia, sweet beyond imagination.

  • Here she was hospitably received by Celeus, and out of gratitude would have made his son Demophon immortal by anointing him with ambrosia and destroying his mortal parts by fire; but Metaneira, happening to see what was going on, screamed out and disturbed the goddess.

  • Probably the two terms were not originally distinguished; but usually both in Homer and in later writers nectar is the drink and ambrosia the food.

  • On the other hand, in Alcman nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides ambrosia the drink.

  • According to one of these stories Thetis used to lay the infant Achilles every night under live coals, anointing him by day with ambrosia, in order to make him immortal.

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