cult

(Engels)

Noun

1. The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
2. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
3. (derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to a cult.
2. (not-comparable) Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
3. (alt-of, alternative, neologism, not-comparable) Alternative form of kvlt.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kʌlt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Derived from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).

Sinonieme

worship

adoration

cultus

sect

craze

religious cult

admiration

creed

cultism

fad

furor

furore

rage

😡

religion

fashion

folly

belief

aberration

ideology

idolisation

idolization

latria

mania

mode

order

divine worship

religious

denomination

vogue

devotion

doctrine

esteem

craziness

faith

Vertalings

culte

culto

Kult

culto

secte

Sekte

kult

verering

cultus

setta

λατρεία

culte

culto

eredienst

seita