Gandhi

plural Gandhis · alternative misspelling Gandhy · alternative misspelling Ghandi · alternative misspelling Ghandy

1. IndiaSouth AsiacountableA surname from India used by Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Sikh people throughout India.
2. countableuncountableMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, and proponent of nonviolence.

   No young Koreans in Jilin accepted Gandhi’s theory. No one was foolish enough to imagine that the outrageous and rapacious Japanese imperialists would hand independence to people on a silver plate, to those who advocated nonviolent disobedience.

   2008 [1935], Kim Il Sung, “With the Conviction of Independence”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 101

plural Gandhis · alternative misspelling Gandhy · alternative misspelling Ghandi · alternative misspelling Ghandy

1. any major political leader who is a proponent of nonviolence
2. figurativelysomeone living in accordance with the lifestyle or ethical principles of Mahatma Gandhi.

   Sulak is eminently qualified to be a Gandhi in terms of his ideas, but not his lifestyle.

   2019, Matteo Pistono, quoting Arun Senkuttuvan, Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism, North Atlantic Books, page 168