"death cult" meaning in English

See death cult in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: death cults [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌlt Head templates: {{en-noun}} death cult (plural death cults)
  1. A religious movement that worships death or the dead. Categories (topical): Death Synonyms: thanatolatry, necrolatry Derived forms: death cultist Translations (type of religious movement): kuolemankultti (Finnish), kult śmierci [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-death_cult-en-noun-DZDEc6-T Disambiguation of Death: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of 'type of religious movement': 92 8
  2. A religious group that requires demonstrations of faith involving the risk of death. Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-death_cult-en-noun-jylgMMjL Disambiguation of Death: 55 45

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "death cults",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "death cult (plural death cults)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "en:Death",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "60 40",
          "word": "death cultist"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889 February 20, The Path, volume 3, page 351:",
          "text": "Although this Death-Cult calls itself scientific, we have not yet heard of any careful or other collecting of statistics about appearances through mediums of the same deceased person at more than two places at once.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892 August 13, The Literary Digest, volume 5:",
          "text": "As regards the significance of the use of plants in the death cult of the Egyptians, we must make a distinction between the edibles which were ordinarily placed in earthen vessels on the floor of the sepulchre […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Evy Johanne Håland, Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond:",
          "text": "We meet the same pattern at the Panathenaia dedicated to Athena, because death cults both in the Agora (market place) and on the Acropolis were of major importance in connection with the cult of the goddess.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A religious movement that worships death or the dead."
      ],
      "id": "en-death_cult-en-noun-DZDEc6-T",
      "links": [
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thanatolatry"
        },
        {
          "word": "necrolatry"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "type of religious movement",
          "word": "kuolemankultti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "type of religious movement",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kult śmierci"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "en:Death",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A religious group that requires demonstrations of faith involving the risk of death."
      ],
      "id": "en-death_cult-en-noun-jylgMMjL"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌlt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "death cult"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌlt",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌlt/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "en:Death"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "death cultist"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "death cults",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "death cult (plural death cults)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889 February 20, The Path, volume 3, page 351:",
          "text": "Although this Death-Cult calls itself scientific, we have not yet heard of any careful or other collecting of statistics about appearances through mediums of the same deceased person at more than two places at once.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892 August 13, The Literary Digest, volume 5:",
          "text": "As regards the significance of the use of plants in the death cult of the Egyptians, we must make a distinction between the edibles which were ordinarily placed in earthen vessels on the floor of the sepulchre […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Evy Johanne Håland, Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond:",
          "text": "We meet the same pattern at the Panathenaia dedicated to Athena, because death cults both in the Agora (market place) and on the Acropolis were of major importance in connection with the cult of the goddess.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A religious movement that worships death or the dead."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thanatolatry"
        },
        {
          "word": "necrolatry"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A religious group that requires demonstrations of faith involving the risk of death."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌlt"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of religious movement",
      "word": "kuolemankultti"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "type of religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kult śmierci"
    }
  ],
  "word": "death cult"
}

Download raw JSONL data for death cult meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.