Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cult
Cult
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n. 1 a system of religious worship esp. as expressed in ritual. 2 a devotion or homage to a person or thing (the cult of aestheticism). b a popular fashion esp. followed by a specific section of society. 3 (attrib.) denoting a person or thing popularized in this way (cult film; cult figure). Derivatives cultic adj. cultism n. cultist n. Etymology: F culte or L cultus worship f. colere cult- inhabit, till, worship
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noun Usage: often attributive see: wheel Date: 1617 formal religious veneration ; worship, a system of religious beliefs and ritual, a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious, a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator , 5. great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book), the object of such devotion, a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion, ~ic adjective ~ish adjective ~ishly adverb ~ishness noun ~ism noun ~ist noun ~like adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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