CULT


Meaning of CULT in English

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.