pagan

IPA: pˈeɪgʌn

A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
(by extension, derogatory) An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
(by extension, derogatory) An unruly, badly educated child.
A male given name from Latin.
(uncommon) A female given name.
A surname.
(dated) The city of Bagan, Myanmar.
(historical) The 9th- to 13th-century Burmese kingdom which had its capital at this city.

Examples of "pagan" in Sentences

These are not peculiar to what we call pagan people.
The word pagan comes from the Latin word paganus, meaning “country dweller,” or peasant.
Other theories imply that the cross symbolizes the four quarters of the moon, important in pagan ritual.
Linguistically, the word pagan derives from the Latin word "paganus", which means "a villager", or a "country dweller".
Mr. Caldigate should be what he called a pagan had been represented by Mr. Bromley to his friends as a great misfortune, and especially
That Mr. Caldigate should be what he called a pagan had been represented by Mr. Bromley to his friends as a great misfortune, and especially a misfortune to the squire himself.
In spite of the fact that he was an Asiatic by nature, he despised what he called the pagan ceremonies of the ritualists, and distrusted what he felt to be the atheistic tendency of science.
The worship of all other gods the Christians held to be sinful idol-worship, a deadly sin in the eyes of God, and they were willing to give up their lives rather than perform the simplest rite of what they termed pagan worship (R. 28).