gurukula
noun
gurukula is a noun meaning “A residential school in India with pupils living near the guru, often in the same house” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-R-U-K-U-L-A, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gurukula is gurukulas.
What does gurukula mean?
noun
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A residential school in India with pupils living near the guru, often in the same house.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gurukula
- gurukulas plural
- gurukul
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gurukula?
Gurukula appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gurukula come from?
From Sanskrit गुरुकुल (gurukula).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).