noun
founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)
• Syn: ↑Buddha, ↑Gautama, ↑Gautama Siddhartha, ↑Gautama Buddha
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑mystic, ↑religious mystic
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/si dahr"teuh, -theuh/, n.
1. an epithet of Buddha meaning "he who has attained his goal."
2. (italics) a novel (1922) by Hermann Hesse.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.