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religion
- /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/ Australia, Canada, US
- /ɹəˈləd͡ʒ.ən/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɪdʒən
Where it comes from
From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).
noun religions
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Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
Similar: theism, faith, belief · Opposite: nonreligion, nonreligiousness, nonbelief, unbelief, irreligion, irreligiousness, atheism, antitheism, antireligion, antireligiousness
- A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it. Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- The way of life committed to by monks and nuns. The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
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Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
Similar: superstition
- Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted. At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
- Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness. Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
verb religions · religioning · religioned
- Engage in religious practice. On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.
- Indoctrinate into a specific religion. To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
- To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify. The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: faith, religious belief, religious, cult, creed, interreligious, doctrine, religiosity, evangelism, faith-based, teaching, cleric, church, religiously, clergy, clergyman
Translations
Every language
noun system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death
| Español | religión |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 종교 jonggyo |
| 日本語 | 宗教 shūkyō |
| 中文 | 宗教 zōngjiào |
| हिन्दी | धर्म dharm, दीन dīn, मज़हब mazhab |
| Kiswahili | dini |
| Português | religião |
| Français | religion |
| Deutsch | Religion |
| Italiano | religione |
| Ελληνικά | θρησκεία thriskeía |
| Română | religie |
| Русский | рели́гия relígija, ве́ра véra, вероиспове́дание veroispovédanije |
| Tiếng Việt | đạo, tôn giáo |
| العربية | دِين dīn |
| עברית | דָּת dat |
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title = {religion},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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