religion
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
Đồng nghĩa: theism, faith, belief
- 2.
(countable)A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
Near-synonyms: credo, creed
Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.
Đồng nghĩa: faith, credo, creed
- 3.
(uncountable)The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
- 4.
(informal, uncountable)Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
Đồng nghĩa: superstition
- 5.
(countable)Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
- 6.
(obsolete, uncountable)Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
Động từ
verb- 1.
Engage in religious practice.
- 2.
Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
- 3.
To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
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From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō. Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). ǣfæstnes.