organized religion

1. 1.

   an institution to express belief in a divine power

   “he was raised in the Baptist religion”

   “a member of his own faith contradicted him”

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Questions about organized religion

What does organized religion mean?

organized religion means "an institution to express belief in a divine power".

What is another word for organized religion?

Close synonyms include religion, faith. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is organized religion a common word?

organized religion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.