say it: SHIN-toh
shinto is a noun and adjective meaning "the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan
relating to or characteristic of Shintoism
“Shinto temples”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shinto come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.