"piety" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpaɪ.ɪ.ti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piety.wav Forms: pieties [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪɪti Etymology: From Middle English piete, borrowed from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and pity. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pewH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|piete}} Middle English piete, {{der|en|frm|pieté}} Middle French pieté, {{der|en|la|pietās}} Latin pietās, {{doublet|en|pietà|pity|notext=1}} pietà and pity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} piety (countable and uncountable, plural pieties)
  1. (uncountable, religion) Reverence and devotion to God. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Religion Translations (reverence and devotion to God): εὐσέβεια (eusébeia) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), تَقْوَى (taqwā) (Arabic), բարեպաշտություն (barepaštutʻyun) (Armenian), набожност (nabožnost) (Bulgarian), pietat [feminine] (Catalan), 虔誠 (Chinese Mandarin), 虔诚 (qiánchéng) (Chinese Mandarin), zbožnost [feminine] (Czech), nábožnost [feminine] (Czech), vroomheid (Dutch), pieco (Esperanto), hurskaus (Finnish), piété [feminine] (French), piedade [feminine] (Galician), ღვთისმოსაობა (ɣvtismosaoba) (Georgian), ღვთისმოშიშობა (ɣvtismošišoba) (Georgian), Frömmigkeit [feminine] (German), ευσέβεια (efséveia) [feminine] (Greek), vallásosság (Hungarian), crábhadh [masculine] (Irish), cráifeacht [feminine] (Irish), beannaíocht [feminine] (Irish), pietà (Italian), 篤信 (tokushin) (alt: とくしん) (Japanese), құдайшылдық (qūdaişyldyq) (Kazakh), pietāte [feminine] (Latvian), на́божност (nábožnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), благоче́стие (blagočéstie) [neuter] (Macedonian), craueeaght [feminine] (Manx), whakaponotanga (Maori), pietat [feminine] (Occitan), pobożność [feminine] (Polish), bogobojność [feminine] (Polish), piedade [feminine] (Portuguese), evlavie (Romanian), pietate (Romanian), на́божность (nábožnostʹ) (Russian), благоче́стие (blagočéstije) [neuter] (Russian), cràbhadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), piedad [feminine] (Spanish), fromhet [common-gender] (Swedish), dindarlık (Turkish), sofuluk (Turkish), takva (Turkish), züht (Turkish), набо́жність (nabóžnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), פֿרומקייט (frumkeyt) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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  2. (uncountable) Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country. Tags: uncountable Translations (reverence to one's family): بِرّ (birr) [masculine] (Arabic), kunnioitus (Finnish), Pietät [feminine] (German), σεβασμός (sevasmós) [masculine] (Greek), 敬愛 (kēai) (alt: けいあい) (Japanese), saygı (Turkish), hürmet (Turkish), ihtiram (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-piety-en-noun-gPqosNYO Disambiguation of "reverence to one's family": 30 69 0
  3. (countable) A devout act or thought. Tags: countable Translations (devout act or thought): تُقًى (tuqan) [masculine] (Arabic), kunnioitus (Finnish), áhítat (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-piety-en-noun-STyCmH58 Disambiguation of 'devout act or thought': 0 0 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pietie [obsolete] Derived forms: baroque piety, filial piety, in piety Related terms: pious, pietà

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "piedad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fromhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "word": "dindarlık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "word": "sofuluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "word": "takva"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "word": "züht"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nabóžnistʹ",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "набо́жність"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "frumkeyt",
      "sense": "reverence and devotion to God",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "פֿרומקייט"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "birr",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بِرّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "word": "kunnioitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pietät"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sevasmós",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "σεβασμός"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいあい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kēai",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "word": "敬愛"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "word": "saygı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "word": "hürmet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "reverence to one's family",
      "word": "ihtiram"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "tuqan",
      "sense": "devout act or thought",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تُقًى"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "devout act or thought",
      "word": "kunnioitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "devout act or thought",
      "word": "áhítat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piety"
}

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