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pagan

noun
🔊/ˈpeɪɡən/
🔊/ˈpeɪɡən/
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  1. a person who holds religious beliefs that are not part of any of the world’s main religions异教徒（信奉非主流宗教者）Topics Religion and festivalsc2
  2. (often disapproving) used in the past by Christians to describe a person who did not believe in Christianity教外人（旧时的基督徒用以指非基督徒）Topics Religion and festivalsc2
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin paganus ‘villager, rustic’, from pagus ‘country district’. Latin paganus also meant ‘civilian’, becoming, in Christian Latin, ‘heathen’ (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ).

pagan

adjective
🔊/ˈpeɪɡən/
🔊/ˈpeɪɡən/
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  1. connected with religious beliefs that are not part of any of the world's main religions异教徒（信奉非主流宗教者）
    • a pagan festival异教节日
    Topics Religion and festivalsc2
  2. (often disapproving) used in the past by Christians in connection with people who did not believe in Christianity教外人（旧时的基督徒用以指非基督徒）
    • The emperor closed all Roman pagan temples.皇帝关闭了所有罗马异教神庙。