religion
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
religion/rɪˈlɪʤən/
▶noun
- 1 the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
■ a particular system of faith and worship.
- 2 a pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.
– derivatives
religionless adjective.
religionless adjective.
– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from OFr., or from L. religio(n-) ‘obligation, reverence’.
'religion' also found in these Oxford entries:
antidisestablishmentarianism
- asura
- Babism
- Baha'i
- brotherhood
- Buddhism
- bullroarer
- catechism
- Christianity
- church
- community
- comparative
- co-religionist
- deity
- denomination
- deva
- devotee
- dharma
- divinity
- divorce
- Druid
- ecstatic
- establish
- evangelical
- externalism
- faith
- faithful
- five pillars of Islam
- fundamentalism
- go
- good
- guru
- heathen
- Hebraism
- high priest
- infidel
- inform
- institutional
- irreligious
- Islam
- Jainism
- Jesus
- Jew
- Judaism
- kami
- kapu
- kashrut
- Laodicean
- lapse
- libertine
