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say it: GOO-roo
guru is a noun meaning "a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher". It is pronounced /ˈɡuˌɹu/ — GOO-roo. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
Hinduism · Buddhism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for guru come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.