pagan
adjective
uk/ˈpeɪ.ɡən/us/ˈpeɪ.ɡən/belongingorrelatingto areligionthatworshipsmanygods,especiallyone thatexistedbefore themainworldreligions:
多神教的a paganreligion多神教
TheEasteregghas both pagan andChristianorigins.复活节彩蛋的起源与多神教和基督教都有关系。
belongingorrelatingto amodernreligionthatincludesbeliefsandactivitiesthat are not from any of themainreligionsof theworld, forexampletheworshipofnature:
Theweddingwas a paganceremonyheldin aforest.
a paganfestival异教的节日
Religious concepts: holiness
- beatitude
- blessed
- bread
- hallowed
- holiness
- impiousness
- karma
- man cannot live by bread aloneidiom
- martyrdom
- messianic
- numinous
- sacred
- sacredness
- sacrilegiously
- sacrosanct
- sainted
- spirituality
- spiritually
- visitation
- worldliness
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
pagan
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeɪ.ɡən/us/ˈpeɪ.ɡən/apersonwhobelongsto areligionthatworshipsmanygods,especiallyone thatexistedbefore themainworldreligions:
Originally pagans, the Anglo-Saxons were aGermanicpeoplewhoinvadedBritainin the fifth and sixthcenturies.
humorous
apersonwho has noreligiousbeliefs:
没有宗教信仰的人apersonwhobelongsto amodernreligionthatincludesbeliefsandactivitiesthat are not from any of themainreligionsof theworld, forexampletheworshipofnature:
They aretryingtostopsome pagans from doing anatureceremony.
It is the nonjudgmentalnatureof pagans thatdrewher to them.
Religious people: followers of religious groups
- Adventist
- Anglican
- animist
- anti-cult
- anti-papal
- evangelist
- fakir
- Franciscan
- fundamentalist
- fundie
- Moonie
- moral majority
- Mormon
- Moslem
- Muslim
- Seventh-Day Adventist
- Shia
- Shiite
- Sikh
- sisterhood
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