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pagan
[ pey-guhn ]
noun
- (in historical contexts) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
- a member of a religious, spiritual, or cultural community based on the worship of nature or the earth; a neopagan.
- Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
- a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen.
- an irreligious or hedonistic person.
- an uncivilized or unenlightened person.
adjective
- (in historical contexts) of or relating to pagans.
- Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
- relating to a religion, person, or culture that is not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim; heathen.
- irreligious or hedonistic.
- (of a person) uncivilized or unenlightened.
pagan
/ ˈpeɪɡən /
noun
- a member of a group professing a polytheistic religion or any religion other than Christianity, Judaism, or Islam
- a person without any religion; heathen
adjective
- of or relating to pagans or their faith or worship
- heathen; irreligious
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Derived Forms
- ˈpaganish, adjective
- ˈpagandom, noun
- ˌpaganˈistic, adjective
- ˌpaganˈistically, adverb
- ˈpaganism, noun
- ˈpaganist, adjectivenoun
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Other Words From
- pa·gan·ish adjective
- pa·gan·ish·ly adverb
- non·pa·gan noun adjective
- non·pa·gan·ish adjective
- pseu·do·pa·gan adjective
- sem·i·pa·gan noun adjective
- sem·i·pa·gan·ish adjective
- un·pa·gan adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pagan1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pagan1
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Example Sentences
A second uniformed cop, 29-year-old Police Officer Roberto Pagan, has arrived.
The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
And likewise the Easter bunny, a bizarre pagan myth if ever one there was.
Yet most people outside that little circle still believe in witches and ghosts and goblins, and are very pagan-minded.
On Tuesday, it was Hector Pagan, ex-husband of Mob Wives star Renee Graziano.
I am an easiful old pagan, and I am not angry with you at all—you funny, little champion of the Most High.
Although nearly two hundred inscriptions have been discovered, not one of either pagan or Christian character has been met with.
The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.
A traveller ordinarily feels as safe in a highly-civilized pagan community as in a Christian city.
There was one device of oath-taking, half pagan and half barbaric, which but very slowly relaxed its hold on Christian Europe.
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