religion

Etymology
From, from , from. Most likely from the with the meanings preserved in Latin  and  (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). .

Noun

 * 1)  Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
 * 2)  A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
 * 3)  The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
 * 4)  Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
 * 5)  Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
 * 6)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
 * 2)  The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
 * 3)  Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
 * 4)  Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
 * 5)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
 * 2)  Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
 * 3)  Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
 * 4)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
 * 2)  Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
 * 3)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
 * 2)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
 * 1)  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.

Usage notes

 * Some prefer a definition of religion that includes only theistic groups, viewing non-theistic religions as merely philosophical systems.
 * Some use the word as a catch-all term for all systems of belief pertaining to morality, life after death (or lack thereof), the existence of a greater power, etc. Thus, nominally "non-religious" belief systems such as atheism, agnosticism, or spiritualism are sometimes included within the concept of "religion" despite not meeting the criteria for a religion in the traditional sense. This usage is opposed by some atheists who claim it is inaccurate to describe their beliefs as "religious beliefs."

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:religion

Translations

 * Abkhaz: адин
 * Adyghe: дин
 * Afrikaans: godsdiens
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ሃይማኖት
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: دين
 * Aragonese: relichión
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: pisti
 * Assamese: ধৰ্ম
 * Asturian:
 * Atong (India): thorom
 * Avar: дин
 * Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: дин
 * Basque: erlijio
 * Belarusian: рэлі́гія, ве́ра, веравызна́нне, веравызна́ньне
 * Bengali:, দ্বীন
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: шажан
 * Carpathian Rusyn: релі́ґія
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: дин
 * Cherokee: ᏗᏁᎸᏙᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 宗教
 * Dungan: җё, дин
 * Eastern Min: 宗教
 * Hakka: 宗教
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 宗教
 * Chuvash: тӗн
 * Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲁⲥⲉⲃⲏⲥ
 * Crimean Tatar: din
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ދީން
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: religio
 * Estonian: usk, religioon
 * Faroese: átrúnaður
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რელიგია, აღმსარებლობა, სარწმუნოება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θρησκεία
 * Greenlandic: religioni
 * Guaraní: tupãrape
 * Gujarati: ધર્મ
 * Haitian Creole: relijyon
 * Hausa: addini
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: relihiyon
 * Hindi:, , मज़हब
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Rëlighion
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: religia
 * Ingush: ди
 * Interlingua: religion
 * Irish: creideamh, reiligiún
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: kasalpantayanan, kesalpantayanan
 * Kashmiri: مَزہَب
 * Kazakh: дін
 * Khmer:
 * Konkani: धर्म
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاین, دین
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino:
 * Hebrew: ריליג׳ייון
 * Roman: relijion
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lezgi: дин
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: relīgij
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: религија
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, , anutan,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: reliġjon
 * Manx: craueeaght
 * Marathi:
 * Middle Persian: dyn'
 * Mirandese: religion
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠰᠢᠨ
 * Mossi: wẽnd so-tũudum
 * Navajo: nahaghá
 * Nepali: धर्म
 * Norman: r'ligion
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, trosretning
 * Nynorsk: religion
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: ġelēafa, ǣfæstnes
 * Ossetian: дин
 * Pali: dhamma
 * Devanagari: धम्म
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Dari:, , , ,
 * Iranian Persian:, , , ,
 * Piedmontese: religion
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: rilijin
 * Plautdietsch: Gloowe, Reljoon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਧਰਮ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: religiun
 * Russian:, ,
 * Samogitian: viera
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱫᱤᱱ, ᱫᱷᱚᱨᱚᱢ
 * Scots: releegion
 * Scottish Gaelic: creideamh, diadhachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рѐлӣгија, ве̏ра (Ekavian), вје̏ра (Ijekavian), вероѝспове̄ст (Ekavian), вјероѝсповије̄ст (Ijekavian)
 * Roman:, (Ekavian),  (Ijekavian),  (Ekavian),  (Ijekavian)
 * Sindhi: مذهب
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:, relígia
 * Slovene:, veroizpoved,
 * Somali: diin
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nabóžnina
 * Upper Sorbian: nabožina
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠗꠞ꠆ꠝꠧ
 * Tagalog: relihiyon
 * Tajik:, мазҳаб
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཆོས་ལུགས
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: din
 * Tuvan: шажын
 * Ukrainian:, ві́ра, віросповіда́ння, віровизна́ння
 * Urdu: دِین, مَذْہَب, دَھرْم
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: rełijon
 * Vietnamese: (道),
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Western Panjabi:
 * Wutunhua: quilek
 * Yakut: итэҕэл
 * Yiddish: רעליגיע
 * Zazaki:


 * Esperanto:
 * Interlingua:
 * Latin:
 * Malayalam:

Verb

 * 1) Engage in religious practice.
 * 2) Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
 * 3) * 1890, John R. Kelso, Deity analyzed: In six lectures - Page 37
 * To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
 * 1) To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
 * 2) * 2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116
 * The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
 * 1) To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
 * 2) * 2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116
 * The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
 * 1) * 2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116
 * The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.

Etymology
, from, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  system of belief, customs, etc.

Etymology
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