one of seven of these to whom the Vedas supposedly were revealed
Word origin
[1760–70; ‹ Skt ṛṣi]This word is first recorded in the period 1760–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: genre, icing, ingrain, plunk, provincialism
Examples of 'rishi' in a sentence
rishi
It is a soul steeped in the ethos and morality of rishi movement.