cult
IPA: kˈʌɫt
noun
- (chiefly derogatory) 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.
- The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.
- (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
adjective
- Of or relating to a cult.
- Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
- (neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt. [(neologism, music, humorous) True to the ideology of black metal or a stereotypical manifestation of that subculture.]
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Examples of "cult" in Sentences
- The cult survived the reformation.
- He escaped with the rest of the Cult.
- The cults site is only corroboration.
- That is discussed in the cult apologist.
- The leader of the cult began the pronouncement.
- Academics largely abandoned the word cult in the 1980s.
- For the first time ever, the term cult came to her mind.
- House Cawdor is the stronghold of the Cult of Redemption.
- The temple is the example of the proliferation of the cult.
- It seems to be taking on the rhetorical trappings of a cult.
- The term cult often suggests extreme beliefs and bizarre behavior.
- The 'cult of the dead' is the key to the religious system of the Tagbanua.
- The rise of Yogini cult is also analogous to the rise of the Matrikas' cult.
- KING: It was in a conversation with reporters after that Dr. Jeffress used the term cult.
- Sociologists started using the word cult with some regularity in the 1970s, to distinguish emerging groups like the
- To use the term cult too casually risks tarring the merely unconventional, for which America has long been a safe harbor.
- Likewise, the term "cult" in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.
- According to, Miscavige, everyone who criticises the cult is a crook or, as he puts it in R&R, “We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal backgrounds.”
- That's the question former BB guestblogger Occult America, recently tackled in the Wall Street Journal: To use the term cult too casually risks tarring the merely unconventional, for which America has long been a safe harbor.