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Definition of Gautama
1. Noun. Founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC).
Generic synonyms: Mystic, Religious Mystic
Definition of Gautama
1. Proper noun. ''Siddhartha Gautama'' - the personal name of the Buddha. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname from=India dot=) of Indian origin. ¹
3. Proper noun. (given name male from=Sanskrit) used in India; more often anglicised as Gautam. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gautama
Literary usage of Gautama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"Siddhattha was his personal name, like Caius or John; Gautama, ... Gautama belonged
to the former race. His teaching, we may note, was called the Aryan Path ..."
2. The Gospel of Buddha According to Old Records by Paul Carus (1895)
"BUDDHA, NOT Gautama. And the Blessed One said : * " Those only who do not believe,
call me Gautama Siddhartha, but you call me Buddha, the Blessed One, ..."
3. The Evolution of Morality by C Staniland Wake, Wake, C. Staniland, 1835-1910 (1878)
"The account preserved of the interview which Gautama had with his five old
companions, soon after he had attained to the state of Buddha, shows that he had ..."
4. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"One day when the sage was absent from his dwelling, the mighty Indra passed by,
and burned with an impure passion for the wife of Gautama; and he entered ..."
5. History of India by Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, A. V. Williams Jackson, Stanley Lane-Poole, Henry Miers Elliot, William Wilson Hunter, Alfred Comyn Lyall (1906)
"CHAPTER XXVIII DOCTRINES OF Gautama BUDDHA IT is not possible, within the limits
of a single chapter, to give our readers anything like a complete summary ..."
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