guru
noun/ˈɡʊruː/
/ˈɡuːruː/
- a Hindu or Sikh religious teacher or leaderTopics Religion and festivalsc2
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- (informal) a person who is an expert on a particular subject or who is very good at doing something
- a management/health/fashion, etc. guru
- Jean-Paul Sartre was the guru of post-war French philosophy.
- Libby Purves meets the woman who’s become the guru of children’s television.
- Most management gurus base their appeal on one big theme.
Word Originfrom Hindi and Punjabi, from Sanskrit guru ‘weighty, grave’ (compare with Latin gravis), hence ‘elder, teacher’.
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