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. 鸦片 opium poppies 鸦片罂粟 the opium trade 鸦片贸易
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’.