"purohit" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327",
          "text": "The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42",
          "text": "At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Shyam Singh Shashi, The World of Nomads, page 66",
          "text": "The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.",
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        "A family priest."
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        "(India) A family priest."
      ],
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        "India"
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  "word": "purohit"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1996, Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise, page 327",
          "text": "The purohit helps the pilgrim should he fall sick or have difficulties with officials.",
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          "text": "At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "The purohit then comes back to conduct the bridegroom and his followers to the bride's house accompanied by the musicians.",
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        }
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        "A family priest."
      ],
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        "(India) A family priest."
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