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KHALSA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The group of initiated Sikhs to which devout orthodox Sikhs are ritually admitted at puberty; founded by the tenth and last Guru in 1699
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Khalsa" is a kind of...):
faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)
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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