sect

Meaning

1. An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
2. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
3. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

Synonyms

denomination

party

🥳

faction

group

religious sect

cult

branch

community

schism

school

🏫

Sect

school of thought

set

division

doctrine

company

class

order

creed

religious order

pair

rent

settlement

sort

species

split

subdivision

tenet

underling

separation from

persuasion

religion

religious community

subsect

kind

believers

category

church

⛪

clause

clay

clique

coterie

denominations

dogma

door

🚪

family

👪

flock

gang

gateway

herd

heresy

belief

loam

opening

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛkt/

Etymology

From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of secō.