Definitions for pagan

pagan pa·gan

Spelling: [pey-guh n]
IPA: /ˈpeɪ gən/

Pagan is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in pagan (aagnp).

Definitions for pagan

noun

  1. (no longer in technical use) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
  2. a member of a religious, spiritual, or cultural community based on the worship of nature or the earth; a neopagan.
  3. Disparaging and Offensive. (in historical contexts) a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen. an irreligious or hedonistic person. an uncivilized or unenlightened person.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of pagans.
  2. Disparaging and Offensive. relating to the worship or worshipers of any religion that is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim. irreligious or hedonistic. (of a person) uncivilized or unenlightened.

Origin of pagan

1325-75; Middle English Medieval Latin, Late Latin pāgānus ‘worshiper of false gods’, orig. ‘civilian’ (i.e., not a soldier of Christ), Latin: ‘peasant’, noun use of pāgānus ‘rural, civilian’

Word Value for pagan
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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