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- DictionaryCult/kəlt/
noun
- 1. a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object: "the cult of St. Olaf"
- ▪ a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister: "a network of Satan-worshiping cults" Similar sectreligious groupdenominationreligious orderchurchfaithfaith communitybeliefpersuasionaffiliationmovementgroupbodyfactionclique
- ▪ a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing: "a cult of personality surrounding the leaders" Similar obsession withfixation onmania forpassion foridolization ofadmiration fordevotion toworship ofveneration ofreverence for
- ▪ a person or thing that is popular or fashionable, especially among a particular section of society: "a cult film" Similar crazefashionfadvogueinformal:thing
Word Origin early 17th century (originally denoting homage paid to a divinity): from French culte or Latin cultus ‘worship’, from cult- ‘inhabited, cultivated, worshipped’, from the verb colere.
Derivatives
- 1. cultic adjective
- 2. cultism noun
- 3. cultist noun
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