religion
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
Other meanings
A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
“The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.”
Related words
- overreligion
- protoreligion
- American civil religion
- antireligion
- conreligion
- counterreligion
- find religion
- freedom of religion
- get religion
- irreligious
- lip religion
- misreligion
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "religiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “religion” 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.