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Cult cult
Pronunciation: 'k<
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from
colere to cultivate
Date: 1617
formal religious veneration worship
- a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of
adherents
- a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its
body of adherents
- a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by
its promulgator <health cults>
- a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or
work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or
intellectual fad
b : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
- cul·tic /'k&l-tik/ adjective
- cult·ish /-tish/ adjective
- cult·ish·ly /-lE/ adverb
- cult·ish·ness /-n&s/ noun
- cult·ism /'k&l-"ti-z&m/ noun
- cult·ist /'k&l-tist/ noun
- cult·like /-"lIk/ adjective
- Synonyms
- 1, creed, faith, persuasion.
- 2, church, communion, connection, creed, denomination,
faith, persuasion, sect.
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from Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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