religious ritual

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   a ceremony having religious meaning

   Synonymsreligious ceremony

   Broaderceremony

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Questions about religious ritual

What does religious ritual mean?

religious ritual means "a ceremony having religious meaning".

What is another word for religious ritual?

Close synonyms include religious ceremony. 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 ritual a common word?

religious ritual 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.