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1. (n.) maya
(in Vedantic philosophy) the illusion of the reality of sensory experience and of the experienced qualities and attributes of oneself.
2. (n.) Maya
a member of any of a group of American Indian peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize: builders of a major pre-Columbian civilization that flourished c300 b.c.–a.d. 900.
3. Maya
any of the Mayan languages.
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1. (noun) Mayan, Maya
a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
"Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar"
2. (noun) Maya, Mayan, Mayan language
a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya
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1. (noun) maya
the name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion
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