Definitions for cult

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Spelling: [kuhlt]

IPA: /kʌlt/

Cult is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in cult (cltu).

Definitions for cult

noun

1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers:
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7. the members of such a religion or sect.
8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.

adjective

1. of or relating to a cult.
2. of, for, or attracting a small group of devotees:

Origin of cult

1610-20; Latin cultus habitation, tilling, refinement, worship, equivalent to cul-, variant stem of colere to inhabit, till, worship + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for cult

Malone first met Anderson by chance over a decade ago following the release of the cult hit Donnie Darko.

Here in Rome on every side was to be found the cult of the Beautiful.

The cult of corporatism allows us to reimagine the corporation as our ultimate access point to the infinitude of possibility.

I am impelled by no fanatical zeal, and have no creed or cult of my own to vindicate.

He had found these fine examples of it and he vowed them indeed a sort of cult.

He brought before her mind those widows who make a cult of their dead.

In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.

The film was critically panned upon its release, but has since gained a cult following.

Of all Oriental religions the Persian cult was the last to reach the Romans.

The cult of Pappy van Winkle By Elton Felton There are lines around the block and long waiting lists.