pagan
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈpeɪɡən/
- His mother was a Christian, his father was a a Pagan, and there was this conflict with him.
- pagan practices
- pagan rituals
- modern pagans
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Watch on YouTubeBut if you were a Pagan, everyone could enslave you.
- But if you were a Pagan, everyone could enslave you.
- Heraclitus gave Jews and pagans a a time limit to get baptised.
- Pro Christian writers blame the pagans while anti Christian writers blame the Christians.
- And I think, oh, putting down pagans now that's not good.
- They know that the Muslims are not literally pagans, but it has higher rhetorical value.
- Now I'm happy to say I am a simple Pagan.
- And there was a guy, Alexander of Aphrodisias, who's a Pagan.
- So he says, if we agree the pagans came to know some part of the truth, then one, we must ask how it happened.
- Maybe all pagans, which would be refreshing I suppose.
- Most of the country is not hung up on Rome as we are a couple of yard pagans.
Examples
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The two ceremonies, the pagan and the Christian, create echoed responses to each other.
Academic text (2008) -
Catholic and Protestant, dissenter and pagan, the whole unruly gang of us.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'm not a pagan, but thanks all the same.
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I am not sure if being a pagan gets one counted as being "religious" or not.
Academic text (1997) -
So he says, if we agree the pagans came to know some part of the truth, then one, we must ask how it happened.
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There I met a number of pagans in a parking lot where they had set up camp.
Academic text (2003) -
And this was what the pagans celebrated.
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The pagans worshipped Alexander as a God, and his tomb had been a place of Pagan worship for centuries.
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By late antiquity, however, Christians, like their Pagan neighbors, wore black to funerals, a custom that has endured.
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In ancient times, many pagans celebrated nature through various seasonal festivals.
Synonyms
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8.7
A person who does not follow religions like Christianity, Judaism, or Islam
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8.2
A person who follows Wicca and honors nature
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7.4
A person who believes in or worships many gods
1
9.6
A person who follows the ancient Greek religion and honors its gods
Antonyms
Compounds
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7.4
Beliefs and customs from older religions not part of the main world faiths, often with many gods
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6.7
A celebration from old religions before Christianity that marks seasonal events with dancing or bonfires
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pagan was first a word for a 'country person' in Latin paganus, and later it was used for someone who kept older or many-god beliefs. So today a pagan is a person who follows an ancient or non-mainstream religion.