Gautama

[ gaw-tuh-muh, gou- ]

noun
  1. another name for Buddha (def. 1).

  • Also called Gautama Buddha.

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How to use Gautama in a sentence

  • But in the case of the great religion of Gautama they feel sincerely a similarity.

    Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton

British Dictionary definitions for Gautama

Gautama

/ (ˈɡaʊtəmə) /


noun
  1. the Sanskrit form of the family name of Siddhartha, the historical Buddha

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