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cults

/kʌlts/

cults is the plural of cult.

Meaning of cult

Noun

cult (plural cults)

  1. The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
    • imperial cult
  2. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
    • the heavy metal cult
  3. (derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
    • Two former cult members explain the difficulties they had extricating themselves from it.

See all 5 meanings of cult

Proper noun capitalized: Cults

Cults

  1. A western suburb of Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8903).
  2. A hamlet south of Gartly, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5330).
  3. A parish in Fife council area, Scotland; the parish church is at Kirkton of Cults.

Words formed from cults

Phrases with cults

Questions about cults

What does cults mean?
Cults means a western suburb of Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8903).
What is cults the plural of?
Cults is the plural of cult.
What part of speech is cults?
Cults is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cults?
Cults is pronounced /kʌlts/.

Words near cults in the dictionary

  1. cultorists
  2. Cultra
  3. cultrate
  4. cultrated
  5. cultriform
  6. cults
  7. cults of personality
  8. cultship
  9. culturabilities
  10. culturability
  11. culturable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cults (page history and authors); Cults (page history and authors); cult (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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