yogi

noun

variants also yogin
Definition of yoginext
as in guru

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Recent Examples of yogi Aside from acting, Reeves is a seasoned yogi, having completed over 500 hours of training throughout her nearly two decades of experience. — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024 The astronomically popular Lululemon Everywhere Belt Bag has graced the hips of almost every traveler, yogi, and snappy dresser with an affinity for athleisure. — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024 Paddle boarding appeals to all kinds of travelers — the explorer, the birder, the resolute yogi eager to master a headstand on the water, the dog lover with their life jacket-sporting Golden Retriever always in tow. — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024 Every old hippie, astrologist, shaman, and yogi already knows this: Everything is connected. — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for yogi
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yogi
  1. guru
  2. swami
  3. rabbi
  4. teacher
  5. intellectual
  6. pandit
  7. intellect
  8. brain
Noun
  • As anti-aging gurus will tell you, collagen is a large molecule that help gives skin its firm, smooth appearance.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Meghan McCain and Bethenny Frankel are criticizing the aspiring lifestyle guru as Mindy Kaling defended misconceptions surrounding her friend in a recent interview.
    — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of guru
Noun
  • 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
  • The swami named her Ganga, for the Ganges River.
    — BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
Definition of swami
Noun
  • Zafir, a rabbi and a member of the Vizhnitz community, was returning home from a wedding in Monsey, N.Y., according to multiple reports.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Fans quickly fell in love with Nobody Wants This when the rom-com series launched in September and introduced the world to filter-free podcast host Joanne (Kristen Bell) and the hot rabbi who steals her heart, Noah (Brody).
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of rabbi
Noun
  • The series stars Quinta Brunson as a second-grade teacher at the underfunded public school in West Philadelphia.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2025
  • When Chalamet, 29, appeared on the Academy Awards' red carpet on Sunday, March 2, Access Hollywood showed a video from Harry Shifman, Chalamet's drama teacher at New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, to the A Complete Unknown actor.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of teacher
Noun
  • So hoped some intellectuals during the Enlightenment who saw the nation as a carrier of a universalist spirit.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Its leading intellectuals are Ivy League graduates who persist in being obsessed with the campus squabbles of the Ivy League.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of intellectual
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Despite also being the planet that rules over transportation, Mercury is most often referred to as the planet of intellect.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This movement made known the intellect and talent of Black people and influenced future movements demanding the equal rights that Black people deserved.
    — Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Definition of intellect
Noun
  • Both drugs clear the brain of a substance called beta-amyloid, which forms the sticky plaques associated with Alzheimer's.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Within the last decade, teams have used the S2 Cognition test to measure how quickly the brain can process information in real time.
    — Cale Clinton, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of brain

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