Usually means: Illusion that obscures ultimate reality.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. maya: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Maya, maya: Merriam-Webster
  3. Maya, maya: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Maya, maya: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. maya: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Maya: Vocabulary.com
  7. Maya, maya: Wordnik
  8. Maya, maya: Wiktionary
  9. Maya: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Maya, maya: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maya: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Maya, maya: Dictionary.com
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  14. Maya: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. maya: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Maya: Rhymezone
  17. Maya: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. maya: FreeDictionary.org
  19. maya: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. maya: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Maya: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAYA: Netlingo
  2. Maya: Game Dictionary
  3. Maya (disambiguation), Maya, The maya: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maya: Natural Health glossary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. MAYA: Acronym Finder
  3. maya: A Word A Day
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maya: Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Maya)

noun:  A member or descendant of various peoples:
noun:  a flourishing Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala from the 3rd century to the 9th century.
noun:  various Mesoamerican peoples that continued in competing civilizations from the 10th century onward until conquered by Spain
noun:  various Mesoamerican peoples living in the Spanish Empire, and now parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
noun:  a variety of Mesoamerican peoples with farming from around 1000 BC onward, who developed a large civilization from the 3rd century onward
noun:  The Yucatec Maya language.
noun:  Any of the other various Mayan languages, such as Quiché, Mam and Tzotzil.
noun:  A female given name from Hebrew of modern usage.
noun:  In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
noun:  A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
noun:  (Buddhism) The mother of Gautama Buddha.
noun:  (Hindu mythology) Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods.
noun:  (Hinduism, Buddhism) The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality.

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