KHALSA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The group of initiated Sikhs to which devout orthodox Sikhs are ritually admitted at puberty; founded by the tenth and last Guru in 1699

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Khalsa" is a kind of...):

faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)

Domain category:

Sikhism (the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam)

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