pagan English

Meaning pagan meaning

What does pagan mean?

Definitions in simple English

pagan Adjective

— If something (or someone) is pagan, it is from a kind of religion called paganism.

— Relating to a religion that is not a major religion; often anything non-Christian, non-Judaic and non-Islamic.

— Immoral, uncivilized, savage, heathen.

pagan Noun

— A pagan is someone who follows paganism or a polytheistic religion.

— A person who doesn't follow a major religion; often used to refer to non-Christians, non-Jews and non-Muslims.

— Someone who is immoral, uncivilized, savage, or a heathen.

pagan

— noun (= heathen) a person who does not acknowledge your god

— noun a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew)

— noun (= hedonist) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

— adjective (= heathen) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

Synonyms pagan synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pagan?

pagan English » English

heathen

gentile

infidel

heathenish

ethnic

unbelieving

pleasure seeker

paganish

non-Christian

idolater

hedonist

unchristian

unbeliever

shaman

polytheistic

philistine

paynim

pantheist

of a different religion

nonbeliever

non-christian

neo-pagan

mystic

irreligious

idolatrous

heretic

christian

atheist

animist

Topics pagan topics

What do people use pagan to talk about?

Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Animism

• What words refer to someone who believes in Animism?
  Animist pagan

Social behavior Religion

Irreligion

• What is a person called who does not believe in a religion?
  unbeliever pagan gentile heathen atheist agnostic irreligious godless

Examples pagan examples

How do I use pagan in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Her mother was a Christian and her father a pagan, but this wasn't a problem for them at all.

Many Christian rituals have pagan origins.

Many Christian rituals have pagan roots.

Movie subtitles

Certain pagan religions esteem her. the highest of fertility symbols.

But that's no reason to hold a pagan celebration.

I took part in pagan rites.

Pagan rituals.

If such a pagan dared to show his face he wouldn't leave in one piece!

Follow me where pagan spirits hold sway, where lithe natives dance on a moon-enchanted isle, where palm trees sway with the restless ocean tide.

That is the fate of every pagan who crosses the Danube!

Such behavior simply isn't Christian. In fact, it's downright pagan and heathenish.

It's a sort of pagan ritual, a ceremonial dance where the faithful sit around sipping tea and worshipping clothes.

The Vikings, in Europe of the 8th and 9th Century. were dedicated to a pagan god of war, Odin.

He's a pagan, my lady.

She was high priestess to a pagan god, Karnak.

It's the survival of one of the ancient pagan religions in their struggle against Christianity.

I am not the least interested in the pagan hypotheses of that book.

Sculptured pagan granites, unmellowed by time. hidden in terrifying canyons and gorges.

Where was he when we pulled it apart stone by stone? When you have offended a god you must then offer sacrifice. What are you a pagan priest or a sailor?

In fact, it's downright pagan and heathenish.

In the last century before the birth. of the new faith called Christianity. which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome. and bring about a new society. the Roman republic stood at the very centre of the civilized world.

Wally Moon just did leg out the long throw by Pagan.

You do arouse the pagan in me. Hum, you just touch me and I go as limp as a noodle.

You wear a cross on your arm, but on the inside you always stayed a pagan.

When you're not thumping them pagan skins you're tormenting your eyes with that rubbish.

Now, spacing the central panels will be the, uh. pagan Sibyls and the Hebrew Prophets who foresaw the coming of Christ.

He has turned Your Holiness's own chapel into a pagan temple.

I am not a man who samples selfishly the pagan delights of Paris without providing for all of you left back here in Stalag 13.

I am going to destroy the pagan Communists forever.

To believe, to pray, even if only to some pagan god. so long as belief is there, it brings comfort.

You do arouse the pagan in me.

Are you some puny pagan goddess of the Greeks?

They're wild and pagan but the Church has reached some of them.

O Lord, look down upon this poor boy who lived among the heathen and cleanse him of the corruption of their foul, pagan ways and make him white again as the snow.

Pagan beast.

In this cavern, pagan man performed his unspeakable rites.

But there was a feeling stirring inside me, a pagan feeling.

He brought you up to be a pagan!

North to barren lands of pagan places and pagan bands.

News and current affairs

In a way, he treated Poland - up to a point - as a pagan country.

Many people gather outside; some pray; others have built pagan altars.

But the Pope's vision confronts a Western Europe that he perceives as increasingly pagan, hedonist, and unresponsive to his revivalist message.

It is an almost pagan sacrifice: in the farm's backyard the animal is held down by a pair of strong men, the pig squealing as much as it can.

Clearly, this devout believer was overtaken by the sanctity of this pagan temple and was praying to his own God in the only way he knew.

Kaplan argues that modern leaders must respond in kind, and that modern leadership will demand a pagan ethos rooted in the past.

It is an almost pagan sacrifice: in the farm's backyard the animal is held down by a pair of strong men, the pig squealing as much as it can. Suddenly, a third man cuts the pig's throat, a fountain of blood sprinkling everyone.