Religion

Noun

 * 1) A collection of practices, based on beliefs and teachings that are highly valued or sacred.
 * 2) Any practice that someone or some group is seriously devoted to.
 * 3) Any ongoing spiritual practice one engages in, in order to shape their character or improve traits of their personality.
 * 4) An ideological and traditional heritage.

Adjectives for Religion
scurvy; ritual; rudimentary; concentrated; positive; fierce; absurd; austere; profane; constructive; inaccessible; sanguinary; powerful; fervent; blessed; unalterable; irrevocable; distinct; revealed; peaceful; maudlin; professed; easy-minded; blatant; doctrinal; gripping; saving.

Verbs for Religion
adopt—; attack—; cast aside—; cherish—; corrupt—; defile—; define—; devote to—; discredit—; embrace—; formulate—; inculcate—; interpret—; profess—; renounce —; ridicule—; side-track—; stamp out—; traduce—; venerate—; —comforts; —consoles ; —elevates; —fetters ; —influences ; —moulds; —nourishes; —paralyzes; —perishes; —prevails; —purges; —purifies; — sanctifies; —sways; —unifies; —wanes.

Thesaurus
faith, faithfulness, formulated belief, gospel, hagiography, hagiology, hierology, ideology, ism, logos Christology, logos theology, love of God, natural theology, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, observance, patristic theology, persuasion, phenomenological theology, physicotheology, pietism, piety, piousness, political faith, political philosophy, rationalism, religionism, religiousness, reverence, scholastic theology, school, sect, secularism, soteriology, system of belief, systematics, theism, theology, veneration, world view, worship, worshipfulness, Babi, Babism, Bahaism, Brahmanism, Brahmoism, Buddhism, Buddhology, Chen Yen Buddhism, Christianity, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mercersburg theology, Weltanschauung, adoration, anthroposophy, apologetics, articles of religion, belief, canonics, catechism, church, churchgoing, communion, conformity, connection, credenda, credo, creed, crisis theology, cult, cultism, denomination, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, dialogical theology, divinity, doctrinal statement, doctrinalism, doctrine, doctrinism, dogma, dogmatics, dutifulness, eschatology, existential theology,

Etymology
From undefined:, the stem of the religio:, from religo:, from re: + ligo:.

Synonyms

 * denomination
 * faith

Hypernyms

 * belief system

Related terms

 * antireligious
 * irreligious
 * organized religion


 * religate
 * religiopolitical
 * religiose


 * religiosity
 * religious
 * religiophobia

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ديانة,
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: կրոն
 * Asturian: relixón
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: erlijio
 * Belarusian: рэлігія
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: godsdienst, geloofsovertuiging , religie
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , मज़हब
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: creideamh, reiligiún
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಧರ್ಮ
 * Kazakh: дин
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: dîn, , ayîn
 * Sorani: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino:
 * Lao:


 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi:
 * Mirandese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: religion, trosretning
 * Ossetian:
 * Pali: धम्म
 * Persian:, مذهب, کیش
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: religiun
 * Russian:, , вероисповедание
 * Samogitian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali:
 * Scots: releegion
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: религија, вера (Ekavian) / вјера (Ijekavian), вероисповест (Ekavian) / вјероисповијест (Ijekavian)
 * Roman: religija, vera (Ekavian), vjera (Ijekavian), veroispovest (Ekavian) / vjeroispovijest (Ijekavian)
 * Slovak: náboženstvo, relígia
 * Slovene: vera, veroizpoved , religija
 * Southern Zazaki:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: சமயம்
 * Telugu: మతము
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, , مذہب
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: tôn giáo
 * Welsh: crefydd
 * West Frisian: religy
 * Yiddish:


 * : fe
 * : религия (relígija)
 * : religio
 * : धर्म (dharm) ; मज़हब (maz'hab), मजहब (maj'hab)
 * : religion


 * : religio
 * : മതം (matham)
 * : reliġjon
 * : (din),  (kish),  (âyin),  (maz-hab)
 * : creideamh, diadhachd
 * : మతము (matamu)
 * : (maz'hab),  (dīn)

Noun

 * 1) religion

Related terms

 * religieus

Noun
religion



Noun

 * 1) religion

Synonyms

 * foi
 * culte
 * dévotion

Noun

 * 1) religion

Synonyms

 * tro

Noun

 * 1) religion

Related terms

 * religieus

Noun

 * 1) religion

Noun

 * 1) a religion

Related terms

 * religionsfrihet
 * religionskunskap
 * religionslärare
 * religionsvetare
 * religiös