Retreat in silence, following alpha male on farm (6)
I believe the answer is:
ashram
'retreat' is the definition.
(type of religious retreat)
'silence following alpha male on farm' is the wordplay.
'silence' becomes 'sh' ('sh' is said to tell someone to be silent).
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'alpha' becomes 'a' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'male on farm' becomes 'ram' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sh' put after 'a' is 'ash'.
'ash'+'ram'='ASHRAM'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ashram that I've seen before include "Place for religious retreat (in India)" , "Guru's community" , "Commune" , "Hindu place of retreat" , "Hindu retreat house" .)
