Heathen

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An adherent of a religion that does not worship the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
  • noun. Such persons considered as a group.
  • noun. An adherent of a Neopagan religion that seeks to revive the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Germanic peoples.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.
  • noun. Such persons considered as a group.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • One of a race, nation, or people that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible, or such races, nations, or peoples collectively, especially when uncivilized or uncultured; one who is not a Jew, Christian, or Mohammedan; a pagan.
  • In Scripture, with the definite article, the gentiles; those nations or peoples that did not acknowledge Jehovah, the God of the Jews, as the true God; hence, idolaters, from the prevalence of idolatry among them.
  • Any irreligious, rude, barbarous, or unthinking person or class: as, the heathen at home.
  • Pagan; gentile: as, heathen superstitions or customs.
  • Synonyms See gentile, n.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
  • noun. An irreligious person.
  • noun. as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans.
  • adjective. Gentile; pagan.
  • adjective. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
  • adjective. Irreligious; scoffing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
  • adjective. uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
  • adjective. Alternative capitalization of Heathen (pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry).
  • noun. A person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion; a pagan.
  • noun. An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
  • noun. Alternative capitalization of Heathen (an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who does not acknowledge your god
  • adjective. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
  • Word Usage
    "It had made more than two millions of heathen in our country; and so long as the cries of these _heathen at home_ entered the ears of our young men and young women, they could not, dare not, go abroad."
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