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heathen

noun
🔊/ˈhiːðn/
🔊/ˈhiːðn/
 (old-fashioned, offensive)
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  1. used by people who have a strong religious belief as a way of referring to a person who has no religion or who believes in a religion that is not one of the world’s main religions无宗教信仰者；异教徒
    • He set out to convert the heathen (= people who are heathens).他决心要使异教徒皈依。🔊🔊
    Topics Religion and festivalsc2
  2. used to refer to a person who shows lack of education未开化的人；不文明的人
    3. Word OriginOld English hǣthen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heiden and German Heide; generally regarded as a specifically Christian use of a Germanic adjective meaning ‘inhabiting open country’, from the base of heath.

heathen

adjective
🔊/ˈhiːðn/
🔊/ˈhiːðn/
(old-fashioned, offensive)
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  1. connected with heathens无宗教信仰的；异教徒的；不文明的
    • heathen gods异教的神祇
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryHeathen is used with these nouns:
    • god
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    Word OriginOld English hǣthen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heiden and German Heide; generally regarded as a specifically Christian use of a Germanic adjective meaning ‘inhabiting open country’, from the base of heath.