"sect" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /sɛkt/ Audio: en-us-sect.ogg Forms: sects [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛkt Etymology: From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of secō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sek-}}, {{root|en|ine-pro|*sekʷ-|id=follow}}, {{inh|en|enm|secte}} Middle English secte, {{der|en|fro|secte||a sect in philosophy or religion}} Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), {{der|en|LL.|secta||a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.}} Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), {{der|en|la|sequi||to follow}} Latin sequi (“to follow”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sect (plural sects)
  1. An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination. Categories (topical): Collectives
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translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Urdu translations, Terms with Uyghur translations, Terms with Uzbek translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Yiddish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 11 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 71 20 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 78 15 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 84 10 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Albanian translations: 52 25 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 46 35 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 61 22 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 52 25 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 52 25 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 51 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  2. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
    Sense id: en-sect-en-noun-Tlyx9DW9
  3. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-sect-en-noun-or5A7-53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: religion, denomination Related terms: sectarian, sectish, cult Translations (religious movement): sekt [masculine] (Albanian), αἵρεσις (haíresis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), فِرْقَة (firqa) [feminine] (Arabic), مَذْهَب (maḏhab) (Arabic), طائِفَة (ṭāʔifa) [feminine] (Arabic), نِحْلَة (niḥla) [feminine] (Arabic), աղանդ (aġand) (Armenian), məzhəb (Azerbaijani), sekta (Azerbaijani), сэ́кта (sékta) [feminine] (Belarusian), се́кта (sékta) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ဂိုဏ်း (guin:) (Burmese), နိကာယ (ni.kaya.) (Burmese), secta [feminine] (Catalan), 宗派 (zōngpài) (Chinese Mandarin), 教派 (jiàopài) (Chinese Mandarin), 邪教 (xiéjiào) (english: cult) (Chinese Mandarin), sekta [feminine] (Czech), sekt [common-gender] (Danish), afscheiding [feminine] (Dutch), sekte [feminine] (Dutch), sekto (Esperanto), sekt (Estonian), lahko (english: religious) (Finnish), secte [feminine] (French), seita [feminine] (Galician), სექტა (sekṭa) (Georgian), Sekte [feminine] (German), αίρεση (aíresi) [feminine] (Greek), σέκτα (sékta) [feminine] (Greek), પંથ (panth) [masculine] (Gujarati), כַּת (kat) [feminine] (Hebrew), मज़हब (mazhab) [masculine] (Hindi), संप्रदाय (sampradāy) [masculine] (Hindi), निकाय (nikāy) [masculine] (Hindi), szekta (Hungarian), sértrúarsöfnuður [masculine] (Icelandic), sekte (Indonesian), mazhab (Indonesian), secta (Interlingua), setta [feminine] (Italian), 宗派 (shūha) (alt: しゅうは) (Japanese), 教派 (kyōha) (alt: きょうは) (Japanese), セクト (sekuto) (Japanese), カルト (karuto) (english: cult) (Japanese), 分派 (bunpa) (alt: ぶんぱ) (Japanese), секта (sekta) (Kazakh), និកាយ (nikaay) (Khmer), 종파 (jongpa) (alt: 宗派) (Korean), 분파 (bunpa) (alt: 分派) (Korean), 섹트 (sekteu) (Korean), 교파 (gyopa) (english: religious sect) (alt: 敎派) (Korean), мазгьап (mazhap) (Kumyk), секта (sekta) (Kyrgyz), ນິກາຍ (ni kāi) (Lao), cultus [masculine] (Latin), sekta [feminine] (Latvian), sekta [feminine] (Lithuanian), sekten (Luxembourgish), секта (sekta) [feminine] (Macedonian), sekta (Malay), taifah (Malay), secte [feminine] (Norman), sekt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), nikāya [masculine] (Pali), فرقه (ferqe) (Persian), Sakjt [feminine] (Plautdietsch), sekta [feminine] (Polish), seita [feminine] (Portuguese), sectă [feminine] (Romanian), се́кта (sékta) [feminine] (Russian), се̏кта [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), sȅkta [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), sekta [feminine] (Slovak), sekta [feminine] (Slovene), secta [feminine] (Spanish), culto [masculine] (Spanish), sekt [common-gender] (Swedish), นิกาย (ní-gaai) (Thai), ཆོས་ལུགས (english: chos lugs) (Tibetan), mezhep (Turkish), се́кта (sékta) [feminine] (Ukrainian), مذہب (mazhab) [masculine] (Urdu), فرقہ (firqa) [feminine] (Urdu), مەزھەپ (mez'hep) (Uyghur), mazhab (Uzbek), sekta (Uzbek), giáo phái (alt: 教派) (Vietnamese), סעקטע (sekte) [feminine] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'religious movement': 40 27 34

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          "ref": "1984, Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 104:",
          "text": "Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.",
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          "ref": "1995, Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, Stillpoint Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "Every person who is not a fellow member, and every social, religious and political institution that lies outside the sect's domain, is portrayed as a representative of Satan's world. In our research, we found that Moonies and members of many Christian sects with similar religious and political doctrines often focus on such beliefs to the exclusion of all other thought.",
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          "text": "Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians both approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type. In such sects the end of the world is taken as a central tenet.",
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          "text": "There are scores of modern religious cults and sects that have been influenced by Hinduism to varying degrees. Werner Erhard, founder of 'Landmark Education's 'The Forum',' and 'est' seminars, which have about 700,000 graduates, was influenced by Hinduism through Swami Muktananda, one of Erhard's principal gurus.",
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          "ref": "1998, Mary McCormick Maaga, Hearing the Voices of Jonestown, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 75:",
          "text": "The Indiana Peoples Temple was essentially a sect, which was joined by new religious movement members in California, which then recruited black church members as it focused its ministry on the residents of urban California.",
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          "text": "Branch Davidians are a modern religious sect that claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church renounced any connection with the sect in the 1930s.",
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "word": "seita"
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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      "word": "นิกาย"
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
      "code": "bo",
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      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "ཆོས་ལུགས"
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      "_dis1": "40 27 34",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "seita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sectă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sékta",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "се́кта"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "се̏кта"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sȅkta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sekta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sekta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "secta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "culto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sekt"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "ní-gaai",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "นิกาย"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "english": "chos lugs",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "ཆོས་ལུགས"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "mezhep"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sékta",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "се́кта"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "mazhab",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مذہب"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "firqa",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "فرقہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "mez'hep",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "مەزھەپ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "mazhab"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "sekta"
    },
    {
      "alt": "教派",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "word": "giáo phái"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "sekte",
      "sense": "religious movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "סעקטע"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Sect"
  ],
  "word": "sect"
}

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