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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hindooism is a noun meaning "the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
India · Bangladesh · Sri Lanka
a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hindooism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.