cult
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.
Example
“imperial cult”
Other meanings
A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
“the heavy metal cult”
Related words
- anticult
- cultbuster
- culthead
- culty
- cybercult
- masscult
- megacult
- midcult
- noncult
- subcult
- cargo cult
- cargo cult science
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "cultus" (care, adoration; cult).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cult” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.