[ˈəʊpɪəm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic
(e.g: he was addicted to opium)


Phrases:
- the opium of the people

Origin:
late Middle English: via Latin from Greek opion ‘poppy juice’, from opos ‘juice’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘water’