transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkəlt ]
noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — more at wheel
Date: 1617
1. : formal religious veneration : worship
2. : a system of religious beliefs and ritual ; also : its body of adherents
3. : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious ; also : its body of adherents
4. : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
health cult s
5.
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. : the object of such devotion
c. : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
• cul·tic ˈkəl-tik adjective
• cult·ish -tish adjective
• cult·ish·ly -lē adverb
• cult·ish·ness -nəs noun
• cult·ism ˈkəl-ˌti-zəm noun
• cult·ist ˈkəl-tist noun
• cult·like -ˌlīk adjective