Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An English spelling of
guru .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor among the Hindus; a guru.
- noun one who has expert knowledge of a technical area and serves as an advisor to others; an expert and teacher. Usually written
guru . - noun an intellectual or spiritual guide or advisor; a mentor. Usually written
guru .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
guru .
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Examples
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We also passed a village to the left, containing about twenty houses, here a Nai gooroo, or person of rank, resides, and here I also got fruit-bearing specimens of Abies pendula.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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That unhappy speculator in seersuckers and castor-oil died in prison, and a _gooroo_ (that is, a spiritual teacher) feed by the Baboo, desolated his last hour with the assurance that he should transmigrate into the bodies of seven generations of _gharree_-horses, and drag _feringhee_ sailormen, in a state of beer, from the ghauts to the punch-houses, all his miserable lives.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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While we were there, Gokool's gooroo (teacher) came for the first time since his losing caste.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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Krishna Pal had come over with his household, like the Philippian, and at once became his own and their gooroo or priest.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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For sixteen years Krishna Pal was himself a gooroo of the Ghospara sect, of which from Carey's to Duff's earlier days the missionaries had a hope which proved vain.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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Gokool refused to prostrate himself at his feet while he should put his foot on his head; for which his gooroo was displeased ...
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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