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Gandhi

//ˈɡɑːndi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from India used by Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Sikh people throughout India. South-Asia, countable
  2. 2
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, and proponent of nonviolence. countable, uncountable

    "No young Koreans in Jilin accepted Gandhi’s theory. No one was foolish enough to imagine that the outrageous and rapacious Japanese imperialists would hand independence to people on a silver plate, to those who advocated nonviolent disobedience."

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone living in accordance with the lifestyle or ethical principles of Mahatma Gandhi.

    "Sulak is eminently qualified to be a Gandhi in terms of his ideas, but not his lifestyle."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Gujarati ગાંધી (gāndhī, “grocer, merchant”), from Sanskrit गन्ध (gandha, “perfume”). Originally, a trader in perfume.

Etymology 2

From Gujarati ગાંધી (gāndhī, “grocer, merchant”), from Sanskrit गन्ध (gandha, “perfume”). Originally, a trader in perfume.

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