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Guru Nanak

Definitions of Guru Nanak
  1. noun
    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: Nanak
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    religious leader
    leader of a religious order
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