heathen
heathen is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An irreligious person. If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. V. Knox. The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Ps. ii.
- 2.See Pagan.
- 3.Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher." "All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.
- 4.Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
- 5.Irreligious; scoffing.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnostic
- agnosticism
- air
- alien
- and
- antichristian
- antichristianity
- atheism
- atheist
- atheistic
- bad
- banshee
- belief
- bout
- carnal
- cloud-compeller
- dechristianize
- deism
- deist
- deistical
- demiurge
- deva
- devoutless
- disbelief
- disbelieve
- doubt
- dryad
- earthly
- fairy
- faith
- faithless
- familiar
- fay
- folklore
- fort
- freethinker
- freethinking
- genius
- gentile
- giaour
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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