n.
- a system of religious devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.
▸a relatively small religious group regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.
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[often as modifier]
a thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group:
a cult film.
Derivative
- cultic adj.
- cultish adj.
- cultishness n.
- cultism n.
- cultist n.
Etymology
C17: from Fr. culte or L. cultus ‘worship’.