Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- Hinduism. a preceptor giving personal religious instruction.
- an intellectual or spiritual guide or leader.
- any person who counsels or advises; mentor: The elder senator was her political guru.
- a leader in a particular field: the city’s cultural gurus.
noun
- Guru, 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
noun
- a Hindu or Sikh religious teacher or leader, giving personal spiritual guidance to his disciples
- often derogatory a leader or chief theoretician of a movement, esp a spiritual or religious cult
- often facetious a leading authority in a particular fielda cricketing guru
noun
- See Guru Nanak
1800, gooroo, from Hindi guru “teacher, priest,” from Sanskrit guru-s “one to be honored, teacher,” literally “heavy, weighty,” from PIE root *gru- (see grave (adj.)). Generalized sense of “mentor” is from 1940; sense of “expert in something” first recorded c.1966 in Canadian English in reference to Marshall McLuhan.
In Hinduism, a teacher or spiritual leader.