Heathen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Offensive One who adheres to the religion of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
  • n. Offensive Such persons considered as a group; the unconverted.
  • n. An adherent of a Neopagan religion that seeks to revive the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Germanic peoples.
  • n. Informal One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.
  • n. Informal Such persons considered as a group.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
  • adj. uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
  • adj. Alternative capitalization of Heathen (pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry).
  • n. A person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion; a pagan.
  • n. An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
  • n. Alternative capitalization of Heathen (an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
  • n. An irreligious person.
  • adj. Gentile; pagan.
  • adj. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
  • adj. Irreligious; scoffing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • One of a race, nation, or people that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible, or such races, nations, or peoples collectively, especially when uncivilized or uncultured; one who is not a Jew, Christian, or Mohammedan; a pagan.
  • In Scripture, with the definite article, the gentiles; those nations or peoples that did not acknowledge Jehovah, the God of the Jews, as the true God; hence, idolaters, from the prevalence of idolatry among them.
  • Any irreligious, rude, barbarous, or unthinking person or class: as, the heathen at home.
  • Pagan; gentile: as, heathen superstitions or customs.
  • Synonyms See gentile, n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who does not acknowledge your god
  • adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
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    Christian   
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    Words with the same meaning
    gentile    pagan    idolater    barbarous    unenlightened    heathenish    irreligious    scoffing    ethnic    infidel   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pagan    barbarous    Celtic    primitive    ancient    oriental    barbaric    African    Babylonian    tribal