Opium Definition

ōpē-əm
noun
A yellow to dark brown, addicting, narcotic drug prepared from the juice of the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy: it contains such alkaloids as morphine, codeine, and papaverine, and is used as an intoxicant and medicinally to relieve pain and produce sleep.
Webster's New World
Anything that has a tranquilizing or stupefying effect.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Opium

Noun

Singular:
opium
Plural:
-opia, opiums

Origin of Opium

  • Middle English from Latin from Greek opion diminutive of opos vegetable juice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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