[ˈpeɪɡ(ə)n], (Noun)

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- (especially in historical contexts) a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions
(e.g: the incoming Germanic peoples were pagans)


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late Middle English: from Latin paganus ‘villager, rustic’, from pagus ‘country district’. Latin paganus also meant ‘civilian’, becoming, in Christian Latin, ‘heathen’ (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ)

[ˈpeɪɡ(ə)n], (Adjective)

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- (especially in historical contexts) holding or constituting religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions
(e.g: a pagan god)


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late Middle English: from Latin paganus ‘villager, rustic’, from pagus ‘country district’. Latin paganus also meant ‘civilian’, becoming, in Christian Latin, ‘heathen’ (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ)

[pəˈɡɑːn], (Noun)

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- a town in Burma (Myanmar), situated on the River Irrawaddy south-east of Mandalay. It is the site of an ancient city, founded in about AD 849, which was the capital of a powerful Buddhist dynasty from the 11th to the end of the 13th centuries


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