cult

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.
 * 3)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 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.
 * 2)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 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.
 * 2)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 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.
 * 2)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 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.
 * 2)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 1)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 1)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
 * 1)  A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

Translations

 * Arabic:, فِرْقَة, مِلّة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: культ, се́кта
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: နိကာယ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kult, sekt
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sekto, kulto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კულტი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cultas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 컬트
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: kults
 * Lithuanian: kultas
 * Macedonian: секта, култ
 * Malay: kultus, taifah, /sekta, sinanjung
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kult, sekt
 * Nynorsk: kult
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ку̏лт
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kulto
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: культ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Belarusian: культ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kult
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kulto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: культ, баш этив
 * Macedonian: култ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: культ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: культ
 * Vietnamese:


 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to a cult.
 * 2) Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

Usage notes
The term has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: култов
 * Danish: kult-
 * Finnish: kultti-, lahkolais-
 * Portuguese: cultual


 * Bulgarian: култов
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kult-
 * Finnish: kultti-
 * French:
 * German: Kult-, kultig
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: de culto
 * Swedish: kultförklarad
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * , religion

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)   enjoyed by a small, loyal group

Etymology
, from, from.