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monolatry

monolatry noun: a belief system with one god who can take on multiple faces (the One and the Many). Coined by Egyptologist Erik Hornung in his book Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many to characterise Kemetic religions (northern Egypt; Nile delta).

Noun

monolatry (countable and uncountable, plural monolatries)

  1. A belief system with one god who can take on multiple faces (the One and the Many). Coined by Egyptologist Erik Hornung in his book Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many to characterise Kemetic religions (northern Egypt; Nile delta).
  2. The worship of a single deity (possibly while believing in the existence of others).
    Synonyms:
    monolatrism

monolatry meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Sanskrit

monolatry in Hindi

worship of only one deity
सहिष्णु एकेश्वरवाद sahiṣṇu ekeśvarvād

monolatry in Marathi

worship of only one deity
सहिष्णु एकेश्वरवाद sahiṣṇu ekeśvarvād

monolatry in Urdu

واحد پرستی

monolatry in Sanskrit

worship of only one deity
सहिष्णु एकेश्वरवाद sahiṣṇu ekeśvaravāda

Synonyms of monolatry

Forms of monolatry

pluralmonolatries

Origin of monolatry

From mono- + -latry.

Questions about monolatry

What does monolatry mean?
Monolatry means a belief system with one god who can take on multiple faces (the One and the Many). Coined by Egyptologist Erik Hornung in his book Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many to characterise Kemetic religions (northern Egypt; Nile delta).
What is monolatry in Hindi?
Monolatry in Hindi is सहिष्णु एकेश्वरवाद (sahiṣṇu ekeśvarvād). See Monolatry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is monolatry?
Monolatry is a noun.
What is the plural of monolatry?
The plural of monolatry is monolatries.

Words near monolatry in the dictionary

  1. monolatrism
  2. monolatrist
  3. monolatristic
  4. monolatrists
  5. monolatrous
  6. monolatry
  7. monolaurate
  8. monolaurates
  9. monolaurin
  10. monolayer
  11. monolayered

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monolatry (page history and authors); monolatry (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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