Usually means: Ancient, classical language of India.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word sanskrit:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sanskrit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Sanskrit, Sanskrit: Merriam-Webster
  3. Sanskrit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Sanskrit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Sanskrit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sanskrit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sanskrit, sanskrit: Wordnik
  8. Sanskrit: Wiktionary
  9. Sanskrit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Sanskrit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Sanskrit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Sanskrit: Dictionary.com
  13. Sanskrit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sanskrit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Sanskrit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Sanskrit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sanskrit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sanskrit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Sanskrit: Rhymezone
  20. Sanskrit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sanskrit: FreeDictionary.org

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sanskrit: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  2. Buddhism Glossary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Sanskrit)

▸ noun:  A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.
▸ adjective:  Relating to Sanskrit.

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sanskritic language, Shanskrit, Shanscrit, Classical Sanskrit, Sunskrit, Old Indic, Sanskritism, Indic, Pali, Indo-Aryan, more...

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english, modern, vernacular, colloquial, informal

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Sanskrit literature, sanskrit language, Classical Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit, sanskrit poetry, more...

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classical, original, ancient, pure, old, later, mixed, early, modern, correct, simple

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Similar:
sanskritic language, Shanskrit, Shanscrit, Classical Sanskrit, Sunskrit, Old Indic, Sanskritism, Indic, Pali, Indo-Aryan, more...

Opposite:
english, modern, vernacular, colloquial, informal

Phrases:
Sanskrit literature, sanskrit language, Classical Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit, sanskrit poetry, sanskrit theatre, International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, World Sanskrit Day, more...

Adjectives:
classical, original, ancient, pure, old, later, mixed, early, modern, correct, simple

Colors:
    saffron,     vermilion,     indigo,     turmeric,     ochre, more...



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