ashram

ashram

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    Borrowed from Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

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    ashram (plural ashrams)

    1. (Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.
      The entire ashram was excited.
      • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 219:
        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.

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    ashram m (plural ashrams)

    1. ashram