- 1a person who holds religious beliefs that are not part of any of the world's main religions
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- 2used in the past by Christians to describe a person who did not believe in Christianity
a pagan festival
NAmE//ˈpeɪɡəˌnɪzəm//
noun [uncountable]See pagan in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: pagan