opium
noun/ˈəʊpiəm/
/ˈəʊpiəm/
[uncountable]- a powerful drug made from the juice of a type of poppy (= a kind of flower), used in the past in medicines to reduce pain and help people sleep. Some people take opium illegally for pleasure and can become addicted to it.
- opium poppies
- the opium trade
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + opium- smoke
- poppy
- den
Word Originlate Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy juice’, from opos ‘juice’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘water’.Definitions on the go
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