religious cult

Questions about religious cult

What does religious cult mean?

religious cult means "a system of religious beliefs and rituals".

What is another word for religious cult?

Close synonyms include cult, cultus. 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 religious cult a common word?

religious cult 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.