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sects

/sɛkts/

sects is the plural of sect.

Meaning of sect

Noun (1)

sect (plural sects)

  1. An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
    • a religious sect
  2. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
    • Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.1984, Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 104
  3. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

Noun (2)

sect (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An ancient astrological concept, a form of polarity by which heavenly bodies were designated as either diurnal or nocturnal.

Questions about sects

What is sects the plural of?
Sects is the plural of sect.
How do you pronounce sects?
Sects is pronounced /sɛkts/ (US).

Words near sects in the dictionary

  1. sectorized
  2. sectorizes
  3. sectorizing
  4. sectoroid
  5. sectors
  6. sects
  7. sectwise
  8. Secu
  9. secuer
  10. secuerities
  11. secuerity

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