"cultist" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkʌltɪst/ Forms: cultists [plural]
Etymology: From cult + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cult|ist}} cult + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} cultist (plural cultists)
  1. A member of a cult. Categories (topical): People Derived forms: anticultist, counter-cultist, death cultist, multicultist, Qultist Translations (member of a cult): sektano (Esperanto), sectateur [masculine] (French), сектант (sektant) [masculine] (Russian), sectario [masculine] (Spanish), sektmedlem [common-gender] (Swedish)

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