Sentence examples for means desire from inspiring English sources

"Ortho" means right or correct, and "rexia" means desire.

The word comes from the Ottoman empire and means desire or ecstasy.

The Kama Sutra — "kama" roughly means desire, while "sutra" means thread — is an old book but a relatively new one to Western eyes.

During the 2002 riots, many Chiliya-owned businesses were attacked, despite their vegetarian menus and names like Abhilasha, which means desire in Hindi.

In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato dramatises a dinner-party at which the intellectual and cultural elite of Athens take turns to speak about the nature of Eros, which means desire or love.

The Latin word cupido means desire, a word which stems from Cupid - the Roman god of desire and attraction.

Which doesn't mean the desiring individual; it means desiring consciousness itself.

And call me old-fashioned ("You're old-fashioned, Blanko!") but the last time I looked in a dictionary, (five minutes ago, since you ask) "aspiration" meant "desire, aim or ambition".

Désirs can mean "desires," "dreams," or "wishes".

This means all desire qua desire is desire for something conditional; otherwise there would be no need for the desire, since the desired state would already always and everywhere be present.

"It's a mistake to assume a desire for negotiations means a desire to negotiate, sometimes diplomacy is asymmetric war strategy," Rubin said.