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Shintoo

Shintoo is the archaic form of Shinto.

Meaning of Shinto

Proper noun

Shinto

  1. Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
    • The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.1905, W.G. Aston, Shinto: The Way of the Gods, page 66

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Questions about Shintoo

What is Shintoo the archaic form of?
Shintoo is the archaic form of Shinto.

Words near Shintoo in the dictionary

  1. Shintoization
  2. Shintoize
  3. Shintoized
  4. Shintoizes
  5. Shintoizing
  6. Shintoo
  7. shinty
  8. shintyan
  9. shintyans
  10. Shintō
  11. Shintōism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shintoo (page history and authors); Shinto (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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