nectar

Speech parts

1. nectar - Noun

2. nectar - Verb

Meaning

The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ambrosia mead goody sap water dear elixir manna dewy liquid sugar wine fluid drink treat

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Antonyms

strong food DRY flat weak plain

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Hypernyms

goody treat secretion delicacy dainty kickshaw

Phrases with the word

coconut nectar nectar-consumer nectar-drinker nectar-lover nectar fly neutron nectar

Anagrams

canter centra creant cretan recant tanrec trance carnet cranet

Examples

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. John Muir

The gruel that children's little hands have stirred Is sweeter than nectar. Thiruvalluvar

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. Chanakya

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. John Burroughs

If you wait, there will come nectar - like fair weather. Japanese Proverb

What nectar can be drunk with the ears? Good advice. Asian-indian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Nectandra pichurim nectandrin nectaplum nectar fly nectar-consumer nectar-drinker