Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bodhisattva

1 sense of bodhisattva

Sense 1
Bodhisattva, Boddhisatva -- (Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others)
       INSTANCE OF=> deity, divinity, god, immortal -- (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)