Pagan

Adjective

 * 1) relating to, characteristic of or adhering to non-biblical religions, especially earlier polytheism.
 * ''Many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints.
 * 1)  savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.

Synonyms

 * (religion) heathenish
 * (civilisation) barbarian, barbaric

Antonyms

 * (religion) Judeo-Christian

Hyponyms

 * pantheistic
 * nature-worshipping
 * neo-pagan

Derived terms

 * paganism
 * neopagan

Noun

 * 1) A person not adhering to any major or recognized religion, especially a heathen or non-Christian (often derogatory), follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion, neopagan.
 * This community has a surprising number of pagans.
 * 1)  An uncivilized or unsocialized person
 * 2) Especially an unruly, badly educated child.

Synonyms

 * (heathen) paynim
 * (uncivilised) philistine, savage
 * (child) brat

Derived terms

 * neo-pagan

Related terms

 * peasant
 * paynim

Thesaurus
Gentile, Gothic, Philistine, allotheist, allotheistic, animist, animistic, atheist, atheistic, barbarous, bibliolatrous, bookless, chthonian, deceived, disbeliever, disbelieving, ethnic, faithless, fetishistic, functionally illiterate, gentile, grammarless, heathen, heathenish, hoodwinked, idol worshiping, idolater, idolatric, idolatrical, idolatrous, idolistic, ill-educated, illiterate, infidel, infidelic, led astray, lowbrow, minimifidian, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonbeliever, nonintellectual, nullifidian, paganish, paganistic, pagano-Christian, polytheist, polytheistic, profane, rude, secularist, unbeliever, unbelieving, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored, zoolatrous

Etymology
Recorded in English since c1375. From paganus:, later "civilian". The meaning "not (Judeo-)Christian" arose in, probably from the 4th century. It is unclear whether this usage is derived primarily from the "rustic" or from the "civilian" meaning, which in Roman army jargon meant 'clumsy'. As a self-designation of neopagans attested since 1990.

Adjective

 * Armenian: հեթանոսական (het'anosakan)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: heidens
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: heidnisch
 * Greek: παγανός, ειδωλολatrikós


 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese: pagão
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: языческий
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: istentelen


 * Romanian:
 * Swahili:


 * : païen


 * : hednisk

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: heiden, barbaar , wilde(man)
 * Finnish: pakana, sivistymätön ihminen


 * Hungarian: istentelen
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: kakara, kauhukakara


 * : païen, païenne


 * : hedning

Anagrams

 * panga