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purohit - What does it mean?

Definition of 'purohit'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A family priest.
  • *1996 , Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise , p. 327:
  • *:The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 42:
  • *:At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.
  • *2006 , Shyam Singh Shashi, The World of Nomads , p. 66:
  • *:The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.
  • Similar to 'purohit'

    parrot, preheat, perrot, periot, parrat, pierrot, porret