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zoolatry

/zəʊˈɒlətɹi/US/zoʊˈɑlətɹi/

zoolatry noun: the worship of animals.

Noun

zoolatry (usually uncountable, plural zoolatries)

  1. (usually) The worship of animals.
    • our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those...1904, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company...
    • Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.2004, Simson R Najovits, Egypt, Trunk of the Tree: A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land, →ISBN, page 227

zoolatry meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

zoolatry in Tamil

விலங்கு வழிபாடு

zoolatry in Urdu

حیوان پرستی

zoolatry in Kannada

ಪಶುಪೂಜೆ, ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳ ಆರಾಧನೆ

Forms of zoolatry

pluralzoolatries
alternative formzoölatry

Origin of zoolatry

Borrowed from French zoolâtrie, New Latin zoolatria, from zoo- + -latry.

Questions about zoolatry

What does zoolatry mean?
Zoolatry means the worship of animals.
What is zoolatry in Tamil?
Zoolatry in Tamil is விலங்கு வழிபாடு. See Zoolatry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is zoolatry?
Zoolatry is a noun.
How do you pronounce zoolatry?
Zoolatry is pronounced /zoʊˈɑlətɹi/ (US).
What is the plural of zoolatry?
The plural of zoolatry is zoolatries.

Words near zoolatry in the dictionary

  1. zoolater
  2. zoolaters
  3. zoolatria
  4. zoolatries
  5. zoolatrous
  6. zoolatry
  7. zooless
  8. zoolike
  9. zoolingualism
  10. zoolite
  11. zoolites

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zoolatry (page history and authors); zoolatry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); zoolatry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); zoolatry (Kannada 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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