creednoun [ C ]
uk/kriːd/us/kriːd/formala set of beliefs that influences the way you live
Synonym
credo
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- -ist
- article of faith
- attitude
- attitudinal
- baggage
- banner
- be a matter of opinion idiom
- eye
- judgment
- manifesto
- matter
- mindset
- mythology
- stand
- try sth out on sb
- turn of mind
- voice
- what makes sb tick idiom
- your idea of sth idiom
- your two cents' worth idiom
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
Examples from literature
- A few European cities had at times been cities of refuge, but New York and Philadelphia were more than mere temporary shelters to every creed.
- But amid the wreck of faiths and creeds, he achieved the strange paradox of American optimism: he never lost faith in democracy, and fought valiantly to the end in behalf of equality and the welfare of the average man.
- He obtained his release by professing conformity to the new creed.
- Preachers and professors forgot their creeds and took to trade, and even to keeping gambling-houses.
- A history of the Creed has not been attempted.
- Before crawling into their sleeping-bags, and at Bennett's request, all joined in repeating the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
- It is somewhat startling to find in the Creed this statement regarding our Lord, "He descended into hell."
- Must I, too, rise and say the Creed?
- Then she would bid her say the Lord's Prayer and the Creed.
Examples from literature
- A few European cities had at times been cities of refuge, but New York and Philadelphia were more than mere temporary shelters to every creed.
- But amid the wreck of faiths and creeds, he achieved the strange paradox of American optimism: he never lost faith in democracy, and fought valiantly to the end in behalf of equality and the welfare of the average man.
- He obtained his release by professing conformity to the new creed.
- Preachers and professors forgot their creeds and took to trade, and even to keeping gambling-houses.
- A history of the Creed has not been attempted.
- Before crawling into their sleeping-bags, and at Bennett's request, all joined in repeating the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
- It is somewhat startling to find in the Creed this statement regarding our Lord, "He descended into hell."
- Must I, too, rise and say the Creed?
- Then she would bid her say the Lord's Prayer and the Creed.