pagan

1. 1.

   not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

   Synonymsheathenheathenishethnic

   Similarirreligious

Other forms of pagan

plural

pagans·

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.

Questions about pagan

What does pagan mean?

pagan means "a person who does not acknowledge your god". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pagan?

pagan has 2 syllables: pa-gan. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪɡən/.

What is another word for pagan?

Close synonyms include heathen, gentile, infidel, hedonist, pleasure seeker. 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 pagan a common word?

pagan is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.