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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(91) The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm.
(92) By the start of the Eighties, he was beginning to transcend his cult status.
(93) Only two have so far been identified: one of the cult leaders and the manager of the church farm.
(94) Miranda Seymour's lucid biography arrives as the general reader's guide to Mary Shelley's ascent to academic cult status.
(95) He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band,(sentence dictionary) the Grateful Dead.
(96) Members of the cult are not allowed to marry or own property without permission.
(97) It is also passionately concerned with the cult of the Black Virgin and has a remarkable record of equal rights for women.
(98) Gwytherin became a place of pilgrimage to followers of her cult.
(99) The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family.
(100) Brad Pitt in the cult film Fight Club was a fraudulent soap salesman.
(101) Yevtushenko was no longer the cult figure he had been when he came to Britain at the association's invitation in 1962.
(102) Vanessa Nygaard is a cult figure waiting to happen, a gale-force personality blowing through Maples Pavilion.
(103) A jogger who had brushed aside two evangelists from a religious cult had been pushed to the ground grazing his knee.
(104) The cult of precision reaches its apotheosis in the presidential code name: Zero One.
(105) Then, widening our focus, we looked at Lugbara witchcraft and the ancestor cult which complements and completes it.
(106) Some fifty centres of the cult of the Magdalen also contain shrines to the Black Virgin.
(107) His only hope is Case Hardin, a female ex-drug addict and cult member.
(108) Yesterday's public enemies and villains have a habit of becoming present-day cult figures.
(109) Deborah Warner has become a cult figure for stark and emotive work.
(110) Kim created an impermeable and absolutist state that many have compared to a religious cult.
(111) No-one could seriously believe that the king had been a worshipper of the cult.
(112) The use of a cult as a means of political expression would be far from unparalleled.
(113) Identification with Osiris was a crucial factor both through the judgement after death and through association with his major cult centres.
(114) Sakamoto, a Tokyo lawyer who was investigating the cult, was found murdered, together with his wife and child.
(115) I don't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort.
(116) It was the launch of the animated Babar television series in 1989 that started the current Babar cult.
(117) Transcendental Meditation has never acquired the reputation of a sinister cult, but doubts are sometimes voiced about it.
(118) The cult following never translated to mainstream success, and then came punk and it was all too late.
(119) They have been linked to a religious cult, 330 of whose members died in a blaze last week.
(120) The ram-headed serpent was one of the most impressive and typical of the Celtic cult animals.
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.