SWAMI Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

swami

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as in yogi

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Recent Examples of swami Play the damn game without worrying about all that swami stuff. — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2026 Several sequels followed, including one called Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, in which Karloff plays a hypnotist swami from the Orient. — Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 In the mid-’80s, when the community had swollen to more than 600 residents, New Vrindaban’s swami, a thin-lipped former Baptist, was accused of ordering the assassination of two disgruntled devotees. — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022 Yogananda was the first Indian swami to make America his home. — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020 The statue of Hanuman Murti (inset above), god of courage, was a gift from a swami in the motherland to consecrate Sri Dattatreya Yoga Centre in 2003. — Omar Mouallem, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020 Perhaps realising how bad things had become, my grandfather agreed to take a vow of celibacy in the presence of a swami. — Vikram Zutshi, Quartz India, 19 July 2019

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In particular, the Iyengar style of yoga uses a yoga chair (designed with an open back and a completely flat seat) for advanced postures like an upside-down inversion where the yogi’s shoulders rest on two chairs while their head hangs in between.

— Jennifer Heimlich, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
For us, Shiva is the Adiyogi – the first yogi, and the Adiguru – the first guru.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of yogi

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Her grandmother isn’t a pandit – in India, as well as in Indian diaspora communities, that’s been a domain that is largely populated by men, with cultural mores at play.

— Deepti Hajela, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2021
Her father worked as a pandit -- or Hindu priest -- at a temple, and visited homes to perform rituals.

— Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 June 2021

Definition of pandit

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Contemporary observers, including one 20th-century American rabbi, noted that many Black Jamaicans bore Jewish surnames and took pride in their heritage.

— Zachary Kranc, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
The senior rabbi at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, Massachusetts, is among thousands of Israelis who flew back to the country to participate in the elections.

— Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of rabbi

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