religious rite

Questions about religious rite

What does religious rite mean?

religious rite means "an established ceremony prescribed by a religion".

What is another word for religious rite?

Close synonyms include rite. 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 rite a common word?

religious rite 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.