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   pagan

   /ˈpeɪɡ(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. (especially in historical contexts) a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions: "the incoming Germanic peoples were pagans"
   • ▪ a non-Christian.
   • ▪ a member of a modern religious movement that seeks to incorporate beliefs or practices from outside the main world religions, especially nature worship; an adherent of neopaganism.

   adjective

   • 1. (especially in historical contexts) holding or constituting religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions: "a pagan god"
   • ▪ relating or adhering to a modern religious movement that seeks to incorporate beliefs or practices from outside the main world religions, especially nature worship; neopagan: "the winter solstice is a major pagan festival"

   Word Origin 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).

   Derivatives

   • 1. paganish adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • P

     3

   • A

     1

   • G

     2

   • A

     1

   • N

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