pagan
noun/ˈpeɪɡən/
/ˈpeɪɡən/
- a person who holds religious beliefs that are not part of any of the world’s main religionsTopics Religion and festivalsc2
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- (often disapproving) used in the past by Christians to describe a person who did not believe in ChristianityTopics Religion and festivalsc2
Word Originlate 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).
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