opium
Meaning of opium
noun
- a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic.
he was addicted to opium
late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy juice’, from opos ‘juice’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘water’.
Information about opium
- It is a name.
- The plural form of opium is: opiums.
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Hyphenation of opium
opium
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- opium is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of opium
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