NANAK

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• NANAK (noun)
  The noun NANAK has 1 sense:

1. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)

  Familiarity information: NANAK used as a noun is very rare.

• NANAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Guru Nanak; Nanak

Instance hypernyms:

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

Domain category:

Sikhism (the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam)