noun [U]
1 a state in which you are not aware of what is happening around you, usually because you are unconscious or asleep:
He often drinks himself into oblivion. * Sam longed for the oblivion of sleep.
2 the state in which sb/sth has been forgotten and is no longer famous or important:
An unexpected victory saved him from political oblivion. * Most of his inventions have been consigned to oblivion.
3 a state in which sth has been completely destroyed:
Hundreds of homes were bombed into oblivion during the first weeks of the war.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for oblivion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does oblivion appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — oblivion appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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