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cults
We have found lemma(root) word of cults : cult.
Definitions
[kʌlt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a relatively small group of people having beliefs or practices, especially relating to religion, that are regarded by others as strange or sinister or as imposing excessive control over members
(e.g: a network of Satan-worshipping cults)
- a person or thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society
(e.g: the series has become a bit of a cult in the UK)
- a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object
(e.g: the cult of St Olaf)
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Origin
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early 17th century (originally denoting homage paid to a divinity): from French culte or Latin cultus ‘worship’, from cult- ‘inhabited, cultivated, worshipped’, from the verb colere
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