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GURU NANAK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)
Synonyms:
Guru Nanak; Nanak
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
religious leader (leader of a religious order)
Domain category:
Sikhism (the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam)
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