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religion > 2 senses
NOUN	1	religion, faith, religious belief	A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
NOUN	2	religion, faith, organized religion	An institution to express belief in a divine power

religion > pronunciation
Sounds	rihlih'jhahn; riylih'jhahn
Rhymes	Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn...

religion > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
Synonyms	faith, religious belief
Category of	free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical; clean; unclean, impure; conforming, conformist; discalced, discalceate, unshod; formalistic, formalized, formalised; Christian; Protestant; Calvinist, Calvinistic, Calvinistical; Orthodox, Jewish-Orthodox; Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox; Anglican; Congregational, Congregationalist; Episcopal, Episcopalian; revivalistic; Lutheran; Methodist, Wesleyan; Mormon; Unitarian; catechismal; responsive, antiphonal; persecution; vigil, watch; consecration; chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention; toleration; traditionalism; censer, thurible; cloister; habit; orthodoxy; Hel, Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld; meditation; affirmation; demythologization, demythologisation; Satan, Old Nick, Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness; brother; conformist; latitudinarian; numen; novitiate, noviciate; die; believe; misbelieve; worship; reincarnate, transmigrate
Broader	theological virtue, supernatural virtue; belief
Narrower	apophatism; cataphatism; doctrine of analogy, analogy; cult, cultus, religious cult; ecclesiasticism; mysticism, religious mysticism; nature worship; revealed religion; theism; paganism, pagan religion, heathenism; Christianity, Christian religion; Hinduism, Hindooism; Brahmanism, Brahminism; Jainism; Sikhism; Buddhism; Taoism, Hsuan Chiao; Shinto, Shintoism; Manichaeism, Manichaeanism; Mithraism, Mithraicism; Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism; Bahaism; shamanism, Asian shamanism; shamanism; Wicca
Adjectives	religious
Nouns	religionist

religion > noun 2, group
Meaning	An institution to express belief in a divine power.
Examples	"he was raised in the Baptist religion"
Synonyms	faith, organized religion
Category of	canonize, canonise, saint; exorcise, exorcize; confirm; covenant; deliver, redeem, save
Broader	institution, establishment
Narrower	church, Christian church; Judaism, Hebraism, Jewish religion; Hinduism, Hindooism; Taoism; Buddhism; Khalsa; Scientology, Church of Scientology; Shinto; established church; sect, religious sect, religious order; cult
Adjectives	religious; religious
Nouns	religionist

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