I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cult hero (= someone who a particular group of people admire )
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He became a cult hero among surfers.
a cult movie (= one that a small group of people like very much and watch often )
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a showing of the cult movie ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’
personality cult
satanic ritual/cult/rite
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The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
religious
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They have been linked to a religious cult , 330 of whose members died in a blaze last week.
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Kim created an impermeable and absolutist state that many have compared to a religious cult .
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The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family.
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The Street has made mistakes, of course-that nutty religious cult being one of the worst.
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The daemons are closely linked with religious cult activity.
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A jogger who had brushed aside two evangelists from a religious cult had been pushed to the ground grazing his knee.
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Many early religious cults revolved around sexuality.
satanic
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One theory is it's linked to a Satanic cult .
■ NOUN
band
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He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band , the Grateful Dead.
figure
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Healing spas were based on a local cult figure and the devotees underwent rituals which included bathing and communal eating.
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I start by telling him that he's quite the cult figure here in Annapolis, and he looks stunned.
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He became a cult figure in which notions of salvation by innocent suffering have a place.
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Vanessa Nygaard is a cult figure waiting to happen, a gale-force personality blowing through Maples Pavilion.
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This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.
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He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure .
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Deborah Warner has become a cult figure for stark and emotive work.
film
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Brad Pitt in the cult film Fight Club was a fraudulent soap salesman.
hero
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Something of a cult hero to modern limestone climbers, or so I understand.
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La Norte, it would seem, is a bit of a cult hero among her work colleagues.
leader
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Only two have so far been identified: one of the cult leaders and the manager of the church farm.
member
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The bloody siege of the ranch complex in Waco has already left at least six police and cult members dead.
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Four federal agents and perhaps up to 15 cult members died.
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His only hope is Case Hardin, a female ex-drug addict and cult member .
personality
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Propping up the world's most enduring dictator is a slavish personality cult , and rigid control of the nation.
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But at no time is this conditioning of mild hysteria and personality cult a wholesome thing.
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However, Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult , and eventually the policy was changed.
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It was also a result of the growth of the press, which delighted in personality cults .
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I don't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort.
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Mr Koizumi is the centre of a virtual personality cult in his homeland, with support ratings of almost 90 %.
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The Sicilian tyrants did not, however, take the personality cult as far as the successors of Alexander.
status
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Miranda Seymour's lucid biography arrives as the general reader's guide to Mary Shelley's ascent to academic cult status .
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This is basically salon music, but the playing elevates it to cult status .
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International rugby has cult status and when things get that popular, it's who you know, not what you are.
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True, the movie enjoyed a brief cult status .
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Among design graduates, this has translated into a near cult status .
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Yet, Kane gradually began to achieve cult status among critics.
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By the start of the Eighties, he was beginning to transcend his cult status .
■ VERB
associate
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There are two other villas with unusual features which could possibly be associated with pagan cults .
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Carmelite churches are not infrequently associated with the cult of the Black Virgin.
become
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He became a cult figure in which notions of salvation by innocent suffering have a place.
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What keeps extraordinary groups from becoming cults ?
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The puppets which first appeared in the sixties became cult viewing when the programmes were recently repeated.
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Pelevin has chosen the fantastic as a suitable analogue, and become a cult literary bad-boy.
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This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.
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He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure.
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Deborah Warner has become a cult figure for stark and emotive work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A spokesman denied the group is a cult and said members could leave whenever they wanted.
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Diet, therapy, exercise... It's all part of the cult of self-improvement.
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Dozens of religious cults have appeared in the US, most making a fortune for their leaders.
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Members of the cult are not allowed to marry or own property without permission.
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Two members of a religious cult have been linked to the recent murders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carmelite churches are not infrequently associated with the cult of the Black Virgin.
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He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure.
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In pagan cults there were two Kinds of sacrifices.
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In the Hellenistic and Roman periods mystery religions and cults spread through the ancient world.
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Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority.
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The cult of the dead at the tomb was a strictly religious function.
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Yevtushenko was no longer the cult figure he had been when he came to Britain at the association's invitation in 1962.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alex Garland's cult novel 'The Beach' was later made into a film starring Leonardo di Caprio.
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Frankie Knuckles is a cult figure in dance music.