meru
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Definition of meru
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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(usually)The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
“2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.”
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name
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(usually)The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
“2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.”
- The Ameru people of Kenya.
- The Ameru language.
- A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.
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(usually)A mountain in Arusha, Tanzania.
“It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).”
- A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.
- (usually)A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.
noun
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of milli-Earth rate unit (“a unit of angular velocity equal to one thousandth of Earth's rotation rate”).
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Etymology
From Sanskrit मेरु (Mēru)
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