cultnoun
uk/kʌlt/us/kʌlt/cult noun (RELIGION)
[ C ] a religious group, often living together, whose beliefs are considered extreme or strange by many people:
Their son ran away from home and joined a religious cult.
[ C ] a particular system of religious belief:
the Hindu cult of Shiva
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Religious people: followers of religious groups
- Adventist
- Anglican
- Baptist
- born-again
- Calvinist
- get religion idiom
- guru
- Hare Krishna
- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
- non-sectarian
- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- Sunni
- televangelism
- yogi
- Zionism
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
cult noun (POPULARITY)
[ S ] someone or something that has become very popular with a particular group of people:
the cult of celebrity
See also
personality cult
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Passionate or passing interests
- craze
- drug
- fad
- faddism
- fancy
- kick
- mania
- mania
- passion
- religion
- ruling
- sb's ruling passion idiom
cultadjective [ before noun ]
uk/kʌlt/us/kʌlt/liked very much by a particular group of people:
The singer had a cult following in the 1970s.
a cult figure/movie
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Liked, or not liked, by many people
- acquire
- an acquired taste idiom
- be in sb's good/bad books idiom
- be the new rock and roll idiom
- be welcome to idiom
- cross
- flavour of the month idiom
- gain
- golden boy/girl
- killer app
- lose
- lose ground idiom
- must-have
- pack
- pop
- sought after
- top-rated
- undesirable
- unlovable
- unpopular
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