Hare Krishna
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈhɛr ˈkrɪʃnə/
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Hare Krishna
- The Hare Krishna devotees were halfway between the two.
Examples
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I recall reading elsewhere that Hare Krishna devotees and New Age believers are more prone to magical thinking than the conventionally religious.
Blog text (32) -
Carson said he would marry the girl with the longest hair and pointed to a teenage girl jumping with the Hare Krishnas.
Fiction book (1992) -
Maybe I could go live... with those Hare Krishna people.
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If only I could go live with the Hare Krishna people.
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I'm going to live with the Hare Krishna people.
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I'm living with... the Hare Krishna people now, Ida.
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Hare Krishna devotees are prone to jump to conclusions.
Blog text (32) -
On deck beside the rail, the crew are beating drums and chanting like Hare Krishnas.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Hare Krishna followers gathered in the park to chant and celebrate their beliefs.
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Every Sunday, the Hare Krishna community invites people to join them for meals and prayers.
Synonyms
68
3.3
About the religion called Hinduism or its customs
How Devout
Surface Forms
Morphology
Hare + Krishna
This is a proper-name label for a religious movement and its members, not a compositional phrase whose meaning follows from the parts. 'Hare' here is a Sanskrit/vocative form (not the English word for rabbit) and knowing 'Krishna' as a deity does not allow a B1 learner to infer 'a follower/member of the Hare Krishna movement' from the constituent meanings alone. Because the sense is lexicalized and culturally specific, it is unpredictable from the parts and thus opaque.
Etymology
Hare Krishna as the name for a person comes from that chant, because people who often said the Hare Krishna chant were called 'Hare Krishnas', so the phrase now also means a follower of the movement.