a solemn promise or pledge dedicating oneself to an act, service or way of life; a vow; a pledge.

utterly unyielding and quarrelsome in attitude; adamancy.

a striving in competition or rivalry with another; a vying.

any game of uncertainty played with a wager.

(in gen.) any game played by two teams to establish supremacy of one over the other.

a pledge of a forfeit risked on some uncertain outcome; wager; a bet.

haughtiness; insolence; disdain; arrogance.

an announcement, declaration or narration made in an open or ostentatious way.

a way beaten, formed or trodden by the feet of persons; a path.

a right course of action procedure.

position; rank; status; standing.

a learned man; a scholar.

a teacher.

a surname used in Mahārāṣṭra.

a number of people or things arranged so as to form a line; a row; a file.

people sitting down in a row taking meals.

a group, flock, herd, multitude or troop.

the act of succeeding or coming after another in order or sequence; succession.

any of a series of such horizontal lines in parallel, as of seats in a theatre or airplane, corn in a field, etc.

a row of written or printed characters extending across or part way across a page; a line.

a number of cattle tied one by the side of the other, that are made to go round and round a pole on the threshed crops (as paddy) to separate remaining grains.

(mus.) a mode.

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a way beaten, formed or trodden by the feet of persons; a path.

a right course of action procedure.

a group of people having a common religious ideals, philosophy, customs, etc.

a man belonging to a particular religious sect;2.a man who follows a particular ideology (as in art, politics, etc.).

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any of a family (Suidae) of omnivorous, artiodactylous mammals with a bristly coat and elongated, flexible snout; a pig or hog either domesticated or not; a swine.