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Definitions for Maya

[1] the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
[2] the production of an illusion.
[3] (in Vedantic philosophy) the illusion of the reality of sensory experience and of the experienced qualities and attributes of oneself.
[4] (initial capital letter ) Also called Mahamaya. a goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena.
[5] a member of a major pre-Columbian civilization of the Yucatán Peninsula that reached its peak in the 9th century a.d. and produced magnificent ceremonial cities with pyramids, a sophisticated mathematical and calendar system, hieroglyphic writing, and fine sculpture, painting, and ceramics.
[6] a member of a modern American Indian people of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras who are the descendants of this ancient civilization.
[7] any of the Mayan languages; the historical and modern languages of the Mayas.
[8] Mayan.
[9] Hinduism illusion, esp the material world of the senses regarded as illusory
[10] the Hindu goddess of illusion, the personification of the idea that the material world is illusory
[11] Also called: Mayan plural -ya or -yas a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan, Belize, and N Guatemala, having an ancient culture once characterized by outstanding achievements in architecture, astronomy, chronology, painting, and pottery
[12] the language of this people See also Mayan

Words nearby Maya

may two-four, may wine, may-blob, may-hegglin anomaly, may-white syndrome, maya, mayagüez, mayakovski, mayan, mayas, maybe

Origin of Maya

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1815–25

Other words from Maya

ma·yan , adjective

Word origin for Maya

C19: from Sanskrit