Ashram

Alternative forms

 * āśram

Etymology
From आश्रम:.

Noun

 * 1)  a secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus
 * " You call it an ashram?"
 * "The word only means community, but it could refer to a village or the world."--- Ben Kingsley as Gandhi
 * 1) A hippie commune.

Thesaurus
adytum; body; caste; cell; clan; class; cloister; colony; commonwealth; commune; community; den; economic class; endogamous group; extended family; family; gens; hermitage; hideaway; hideout; hiding place; holy of holies; ivory tower; kinship group; lair; mew; moiety; nuclear family; order; phratria; phratry; phyle; privacy; recess; retreat; sanctum; sanctum sanctorum; secret place; settlement; social class; society; subcaste; totem