Ashram

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage. Hinduism

    "The entire ashram was excited."

  2. 2
    (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus wordnet
  3. 3
    a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram wordnet

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"In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa."

Etymology

From Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

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