Synonym: craze, cultus, fad, furor, furore, rage, religious cult. Similar words: multicultural, faculty, culture, cultured, cultural, difficult, cultivated, agriculture. Meaning: [kʌlt] n. 1. adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices 2. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal 3. a system of religious beliefs and rituals.
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(61) I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner
(62) Euripides' satire on the paranoia of the idealist has always been the cult play of the Attic repertoire.
(63) Furthermore, the cult which is thus yoked with such practice is supposed to be of a far different order of reality.
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(64) Mr Koizumi is the centre of a virtual personality cult in his homeland, with support ratings of almost 90 %.
(65) His Big Night Out programme on Channel 4 has built up a cult following.
(66) Four federal agents and perhaps up to 15 cult members died.
(67) What'd he do - start a new cult when he fell out with Crowley?
(68) The Street has made mistakes, of course-that nutty religious cult being one of the worst.
(69) A spokesman denied the group is a cult and said members could leave whenever they wanted.
(70) It seems unlikely that the officers responsible for the cult would have used crude pottery vessels of this type.
(71) But at no time is this conditioning of mild hysteria and personality cult a wholesome thing.
(72) They started chasing after all these hippy cult groups and all the criminals were on drugs.
(73) The cult of sport sometimes seems to take on the quality of an Orwellian nightmare.
(74) There is considerable evidence that greater equality prevailed between women and men in the cult of some ancient polytheistic communities.
(75) The presence of springs and these finds appear to suggest the centre of a healing cult[sentencedict.com], rather than a purely domestic villa.
(76) Pelevin has chosen the fantastic as a suitable analogue, and become a cult literary bad-boy.
(77) I loved it, and for a while there the band remained a cult favorite.
(78) This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.
(79) Historically, the Black Virgin cult seems to point in the direction of two alternatives in particular.
(80) La Norte, it would seem, is a bit of a cult hero among her work colleagues.
(81) Two members of a religious cult have been linked to the recent murders.
(82) The cult of the dead at the tomb was a strictly religious function.
(83) Her cult was particularly prevalent in eastern Gaul, though images of her have been found as far west as Gloucestershire.
(84) Healing spas were based on a local cult figure and the devotees underwent rituals which included bathing and communal eating.
(85) Clement combined his highly positive evaluation of culture with a severe puritanism towards any concessions to polytheistic myth and cult.
(86) Something of a cult hero to modern limestone climbers, or so I understand.
(87) There are initiates of the Shiva cult who handle Cobras without any danger of being bitten.
(88) Only in a few cases, as at Brading, do they reflect any deeply held beliefs or cult practices.
(89) The cult of Dolichenus was introduced into Britain by high-ranking officers of the army and it was especially popular under Commodus.
(90) About the only way to be a harem-guarding potentate nowadays is to start a cult and brainwash potential concubines about your holiness.
More similar words: multicultural, faculty, culture, cultured, cultural, difficult, cultivated, agriculture, monoculture, horticulture, agricultural, acculturation, exult, sultry, fault, vault, adult, faulty, result, consult, assault, multiply, ulterior, ultimate, exulting, exultant, as a result, multiple, result in, adultery.