Om

noun Hinduism.

a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.

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Also, Aum.

Origin:
1780–90; < Sanskrit

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Ostmark.

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Order of Merit.

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om

—*the internet domain name for*
	Oman

Om (əʊm)

—n
	Hinduism a sacred syllable typifying the three gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, who are concerned in the threefold operation of integration, maintenance, and disintegration

[from Sanskrit]

OM

—*abbreviation for*
1.	Order of Merit (a Brit title)

—*symbol for*
2.	currency (the former) Ostmark

OM

—*abbreviation for*
	Oman (international car registration)

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Word Origin & History

mystical word in Hinduism, Buddhism; an utterance of assent, 1788.

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"Christianity, on the other hand, is humane, practical, and, in a large sense, radical. So many years and ages of the gods those Eastern sages sat contemplating Brahm, uttering in silence the mystic "Om," being absorbed into the essence of the Supreme Being, never going out of themselves, but subsiding farther and deeper within; so infinitely wise, yet infinitely stagnant; until, at last, in that same Asia, but in the western part of it, appeared a youth, wholly unforetold by them,—not being absorbed into Brahm, but bringing Brahm down to earth and to mankind; in whom Brahm had awakened from his long sleep, and exerted himself, and the day began,—a new avatar. The Brahman had never thought to be a brother of mankind as well as a child of God."

-Henry David Thoreau

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