cult

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — imperial cult
  2. A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing. informal
    — the heavy metal cult
  3. 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. derogatory
    — Two former cult members explain the difficulties they had extricating themselves from it.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to a cult. not-comparable
  2. Enjoyed by a small, loyal group. not-comparable
    — a cult horror movie
  3. Alternative form of kvlt. alt-of,alternative,neologism,not-comparable

词形变化

cults plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticult cargo cult cargo cult science cult archaeology cultbuster cultdom cult film cult follower cult following culthead cult hero cult hit cultic cultish cultishly cultishness cultism cultist cultlike cult of personality cultship cult stock culty cybercult death cult doomsday cult fertility cult imperial cult masscult megacult midcult mystery cult noncult personality cult Qult sex cult subcult suicide cult trans cult witch cult
相关词
new religious movement sect

词源

词源 1
Derived from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).
词源 2
Derived from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).
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