See ancestor worship on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for ancestor worship meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "ancestor worship (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Anthropology",
"orig": "en:Anthropology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Zoology",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"Biology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Religion",
"orig": "en:Religion",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Religion Codex entry",
"text": "The ancient quarians practiced ancestor worship. Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors."
],
"id": "en-ancestor_worship-en-noun-px9OeT4X",
"links": [
[
"anthropology",
"anthropology"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"Veneration",
"veneration"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"ancestor",
"ancestor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anthropology, religion) Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "ancestor spirit"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"anthropology",
"human-sciences",
"lifestyle",
"religion",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "vooroueraanbidding"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jìzǔ",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "祭祖"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voorouderverering"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vooroudercultus"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "manisme"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "esi-isien palvonta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "esivanhempien palvonta"
},
{
"alt": "そせんすうはい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sosen-suuhai",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "祖先崇拝"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "culto dos ancestrais"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "culto aos ancestrais"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kulʹt prédkov",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "культ пре́дков"
}
]
}
],
"word": "ancestor worship"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "ancestor worship (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "ancestor spirit"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"en:Anthropology",
"en:Religion"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Religion Codex entry",
"text": "The ancient quarians practiced ancestor worship. Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors."
],
"links": [
[
"anthropology",
"anthropology"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"Veneration",
"veneration"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"ancestor",
"ancestor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anthropology, religion) Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"anthropology",
"human-sciences",
"lifestyle",
"religion",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "vooroueraanbidding"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jìzǔ",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "祭祖"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voorouderverering"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vooroudercultus"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "manisme"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "esi-isien palvonta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "esivanhempien palvonta"
},
{
"alt": "そせんすうはい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sosen-suuhai",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"word": "祖先崇拝"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "culto dos ancestrais"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "culto aos ancestrais"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kulʹt prédkov",
"sense": "veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "культ пре́дков"
}
],
"word": "ancestor worship"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.