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Ashram

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ashram"

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Word	Definition
pondicherrynoun	Former name of Puducherry: The capital city of the union territory of Puducherry, India.
hermitagenoun	A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
monasterynoun	A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
cloisternoun	A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
retreatnoun	The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
sanctuarynoun	A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
conventnoun	A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
viharanoun	A Buddhist monastery.
mathanoun	(slang, New York City) head
gurukulnoun	A type of school in India and in several other countries, residential in nature, with pupils living near the guru, often within the same house.
ashramitenoun	(Hinduism) A person who stays at an ashram
sramananoun	(religion, inexact, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of samana (“Indian ascetic, particularly in Hindu and Jain contexts”).
akharanoun	A monastery used by this order
dharmshalanoun	Alternative form of dharmsala. [(historical, India) A charitable or religious house, especially a resthouse for travellers.]
gaushalanoun	Alternative form of goshala. [(India) An animal shelter for cows, which are sacred in Hinduism.]
gosainnoun	(India) A Hindu holy man.
sampradayanoun	(Hinduism) Any of several Hindu sects or denominations
samadhinoun	The highest state of meditation, at which complete unity is reached.
pathshalanoun	(India, historical) A kind of Hindu-run village school.
udasinoun	(religion) A member of a religious sect of ascetics centred in northern India, who rose to prominence in the 17th century and gained control of Sikh shrines in the 18th century.