Definitions for gandhi
ˈgɑn di, ˈgæn-gand·hi

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1. Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhinoun

   daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984)

2. Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhinoun

   political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)

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1. Gandhiadjective

   Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu nationalist and religious leader, who preached non-violent resistance to oppression.

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1. Gandhinoun

   Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, and proponent of nonviolence.

2. Gandhinoun

   used by Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Sikh people throughout India.

3. Etymology: From ગાંધી, गांधी.

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1. Gandhi

   Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; GAHN-dee; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian revolutionary, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule and later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific epithet Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world. Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. It was here that Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and, above all, achieving swaraj (self-rule). Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor. He began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India. Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India. In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Abstaining from the official celebration of independence, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to alleviate distress. In the months following, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop the religious violence. The last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948 when he was 78, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan. Although the Government of India relented, as did the religious rioters, the belief that Gandhi had been too resolute in his defence of both Pakistan and Indian Muslims, especially those besieged in Delhi, spread among some Hindus in India. Among these was Nathuram Godse, a militant Hindu nationalist from western India, who assassinated Gandhi by firing three bullets into his chest at an interfaith prayer meeting in Delhi on 30 January 1948. Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence. Gandhi is commonly considered the Father of the Nation in India and is commonly called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for father, papa).

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1. gandhi

   Gandhi, full name Mahatma Gandhi, was a prominent political and spiritual leader in India, known for his advocacy of tenets such as nonviolent civil resistance and freedom through self-rule. Born on October 2, 1869, and assassinated on January 30, 1948, he played a pivotal role in India's fight for independence from the British rule. Gandhi, also known as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, is revered worldwide for his philosophy of peace and tolerance.

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1. Gandhi

   Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film which dramatises the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an Indian lawyer and activist who was a leader of the nation's non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the United Kingdom's rule of the country during the 20th century. Gandhi was a collaboration of British and Indian production companies and was written by John Briley and produced and directed by Richard Attenborough. It stars Ben Kingsley in the titular role. The film covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment, and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted. Gandhi was released in India on 30 November 1982, in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1982, and in the United States on 6 December 1982. It was nominated for Academy Awards in eleven categories, winning eight, including Best Picture. Richard Attenborough won for Best Director, and Ben Kingsley for Best Actor.

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1. GANDHI

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gandhi is ranked #5199 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gandhi surname appeared 6,721 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Gandhi.
   
   94.9% or 6,383 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.9% or 129 total occurrences were White.
   1.7% or 117 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.5% or 39 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.4% or 27 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 26 total occurrences were Black.

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Anagrams for gandhi »

1. hading

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gandhi in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gandhi in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of gandhi in a Sentence

1. Ursula K. Le Guin:

   Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

2. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

   This Pope has become a figure like Gandhi, or (President John F.) Kennedy, going beyond their own cultural surroundings. This Pope has gone beyond Catholicism. Of course he's leader of the Catholics, but many accept him as a moral leader, for someone like me -- who had worked on this problem for 40 years and became depressed last 10 years that I see the change happening but no action taken -- we see him as the hope.

3. Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley:

   It ... marks an important, historic moment celebrating the strong bond between our two nations, india and the UK share the same values and we are a partnership of equals. This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi.

4. Jimmy Carter:

   According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

5. Mahatma Gandhi:

   N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gandhi
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=gandhi
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gandhi
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gandhi
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html