In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.
Used in a Sentence
guru
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for guru.
Editorial note
You don’t need to be a CSS guru, but someone who enjoys writing modular javascript applications is helpful.
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Quick take
In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of guru gathered in one view.
To act as a guru; to give wise advice
(sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for guru.
noun
In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.
verb
To act as a guru; to give wise advice
noun
(sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.
noun
(India) Any general teacher (as a term of respect).
Example sentences
You don’t need to be a CSS guru, but someone who enjoys writing modular javascript applications is helpful.
For example, Al Viro was an ex-Plan 9 hacker who later became a full-time Linux guru.
After hearing him mentioned numerous times in various contexts, I gathered he was some sort of sage guru.
Alex Martelli I recognise; he's a python guru (behind the Python Cookbook, among other things) now working at google.
Not everyone is (or want to be) Linux guru, rockstar hacker or simply willing to solve bugs or errors for and at uncertain time.
Please forgive my ignorance as I am far from any sort of database guru, but...so what?
The advice we give on anything besides that is just our opinion, not guru-level analysis of the business model and market.
There are lots of websites where you can pick up paying gigs: elance, odesk, guru,...
Are you talking about Don Lancaster of DL's guru lair?
It's funny -- I remember a self-appointed security guru here saying that the fact that 37 Signals doesn't encrypt passwords was perfectly fine, a minor detail.
Mysql does everything I want and probably more since, as I said, I am no guru; there are probably tons of things I would use and don't even know about.
Although I'm no advertising guru, I'm pretty sure that it's safe to say that the users of Safari, Chrome and Firefox are more internet savvy than the users of Internet Explorer.
Quote examples
De-reference a null ptr and you'd get the old "guru meditation", followed by a reboot.
One of CMU's AI Guru (I forgot his name), back in 60s, described brilliantly a principle that "incredible complex" observable behavior of an ant is not due to its "intelligence", but due to obstacles in environment.
But given the positive affect associated with the names -- "Colorado River Rock Star Javascript-Guru Salmon" -- I wouldn't be surprised if most of the difference in flavor is printed on the menu.
To paraphrase how management guru Peter Drucker put it "Growth that increases productivity is healthy, growth without an increase in productivity is fat, and growth that decreases productivity is cancer...." Lately, MS has been coming up with nothing but Bloatware.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use guru in a sentence?
You don’t need to be a CSS guru, but someone who enjoys writing modular javascript applications is helpful.
What does guru mean?
In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.
What part of speech is guru?
guru is commonly used as noun, verb.