That religious cult has got some pretty off the wall ideas.
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Cult
//kʌlt//
Synonyms for "cult" (66 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (33)
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5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescreated by
1 entriesdbpedia genre
4 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesmade of
1 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
129 translations across 52 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- طائِفَة noun (sect)
- فِرْقَة noun (sect)
- مِلّة noun (sect)
Armenian
1 entries- աղանդ noun (sect)
Belarusian
3 entries- культ noun (subset of worship)
- культ noun (sect)
- се́кта noun (sect)
Bulgarian
4 entries- култов adj (of or relating to a cult)
- култов adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- култ noun (subset of worship)
- култ noun (sect)
Burmese
1 entries- နိကာယ noun (sect)
Catalan
3 entries- culte noun (subset of worship)
- culte noun (sect)
- secta noun (sect)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 崇拜 noun (subset of worship)
- 異教 /异教 noun (sect)
- 邪教 noun (sect)
Czech
4 entries- kultovní adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- kult noun (subset of worship)
- kult noun (sect)
- sekta noun (sect)
Danish
4 entries- kult adj (of or relating to a cult)
- kult adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- kult noun (subset of worship)
- kult noun (sect)
Dutch
2 entries- cultus noun (subset of worship)
- sekte noun (sect)
Esperanto
3 entries- kulto noun (subset of worship)
- kulto noun (sect)
- sekto noun (sect)
Estonian
1 entries- kultus noun (sect)
Finnish
4 entries- kultti adj (of or relating to a cult)
- kultti adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- lahkolais adj (of or relating to a cult)
- kultti noun (subset of worship)
French
4 entries- culte adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- culte noun (subset of worship)
- culte noun (sect)
- secte noun (sect)
Georgian
1 entries- კულტი noun (sect)
German
4 entries- Kult adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- kultig adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- Kult noun (subset of worship)
- Kultus noun (subset of worship)
Greek
4 entries- αίρεση noun (sect)
- δόγμα noun (subset of worship)
- θρησκεία noun (subset of worship)
- λατρεία noun (sect)
Hebrew
2 entries- כַּת noun (sect)
- פּוּלְחָן noun (subset of worship)
Hindi
1 entries- पंथ noun (sect)
Hungarian
1 entries- szekta noun (sect)
Icelandic
1 entries- sértrúarsöfnuður noun (sect)
Indonesian
1 entries- sekte noun (sect)
Irish
1 entries- cultas noun (sect)
Italian
2 entries- culto noun (subset of worship)
- culto noun (sect)
Japanese
2 entries- カルト noun (sect)
- 崇拝 noun (subset of worship)
Khmer
1 entries- និកាយ noun (sect)
Korean
2 entries- 숭배 noun (subset of worship)
- 컬트 noun (sect)
Kumyk
2 entries- баш этив noun (subset of worship)
- культ noun (subset of worship)
Lao
1 entries- ນິກາຍ noun (sect)
Latin
1 entries- cultus noun (sect)
Latvian
1 entries- kults noun (sect)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kultas noun (sect)
Macedonian
3 entries- култ noun (subset of worship)
- култ noun (sect)
- секта noun (sect)
Malay
4 entries- kultus noun (sect)
- sekta noun (sect)
- sekte noun (sect)
- sinanjung noun (sect)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kult noun (sect)
- sekt noun (sect)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kult noun (sect)
- sekt noun (sect)
Persian
1 entries- فرقه noun (sect)
Polish
4 entries- kultowy adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- kult noun (subset of worship)
- kult noun (sect)
- sekta noun (sect)
Portuguese
4 entries- cult adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- cultual adj (of or relating to a cult)
- culto noun (subset of worship)
- culto noun (sect)
Romanian
1 entries- cult noun (sect)
Russian
4 entries- культовый adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- культ noun (subset of worship)
- культ noun (sect)
- се́кта noun (sect)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kȕlt noun (sect)
- ку̏лт noun (sect)
Slovak
2 entries- kult noun (subset of worship)
- kult noun (sect)
Slovene
2 entries- kult noun (subset of worship)
- kult noun (sect)
Southern Altai
1 entries- культ noun (subset of worship)
Spanish
3 entries- de culto adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- secta noun (sect)
- veneración noun (subset of worship)
Swedish
4 entries- kultförklarad adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- kult noun (subset of worship)
- kult noun (sect)
- sekt noun (sect)
Tagalog
1 entries- kulto noun (sect)
Thai
1 entries- นิกาย noun (sect)
Turkish
4 entries- kült adj (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)
- kült noun (sect)
- tapınç noun (sect)
- tarikat noun (subset of worship)
Ukrainian
3 entries- культ noun (subset of worship)
- культ noun (sect)
- се́кта noun (sect)
Vietnamese
2 entries- giáo phái noun (sect)
- sự sùng bái noun (subset of worship)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
In the religious-cult trial, the ambitious lawyer will represent the cult leader.
Source: tatoeba (266303)
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Source: tatoeba (706981)
The townsfolk were convinced that the string of murders was tied to a satanic cult.
Source: tatoeba (741544)
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