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Definitions: Pagan |
PaganAdjective1. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam. Noun1. A person who does not acknowledge your God. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pagan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Literature | Pagan properly means "belonging to a village" (Latin, pagus). The Christian Church fixed itself first in cities, the centres of intelligence. Long after it had been established in towns, idolatrous practices continued to be observed in rural districts and villages, so pagan and villager came to mean the same thing. (See Heathen. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pagan (also known as Bagan) was an important ancient kingdom in Myanmar. Its first king Anawrahta reigned from 1044-1077. He is said to have been converted to Theravada Buddhism by a Mon monk, after which he made a pilgrimage to Sri Lanka, returning to successfully convert his country, though other beliefs persisted. In 1287 the kingdom fell to the Mongols, after refusing to pay tribute.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pagan."
Synonyms: PaganSynonyms: heathenish (adj), gentile (n), heathen (n), infidel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim; pantheistic, polytheistic. |
Heretic, apostate, antichrist; pagan, heathen; painim, paynim; giaour; gentile; pantheist, polytheist; idolator. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pagan |
| English words defined with "pagan": Ahab ♦ Gentilish, guardian spirit ♦ Orgies ♦ pagan religion, Pagandom, Paganity, paganize, Paganly, Paien, Painim, Payen ♦ Sekes, Semipagan ♦ The heathen ♦ Unpaganize. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pagan": Argantes ♦ Berg Folk ♦ Centaur, Clorinda ♦ Divine Pagan, Dying Sayings ♦ Eva ♦ Hip! Hip! Hurrah! ♦ JOSS ♦ Olaf, Orlando Furioso, Oswald's Well ♦ Pagan Works of Art, Pentapolin ♦ Roland ♦ Sarsen Stones, Sobrino, Solyman ♦ TERMAGANT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pagan": Paien, Painim, Payen ♦ Sarsen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pagan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (gentile, heathen, heathenish, pagan, paganish), Serbo-Croatian (gentile, pagan), Welsh (heathen, pagan). |
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Screenplays | No, thank you. I'm a pagan. ('Breaker' Morant; writing credit: Kenneth Ross; Jonathan Hardy) I despise you, Arthur Pendragon! Neither good Christian, nor good pagan, nor a good husband to me. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) | |
Lyrics | Like a pagan to anyone ("Like A Stone"; performing artist: AUDIOSLAVE) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pagan Rhapsody (1970) Sign of the Pagan (1954) Pagan Love Song (1950) The Pagan (1929) Pagan Passions (1924) | |
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 | Hydrothermal spring discharging fluid off Pagan Island Observed on NOAA Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Jose Pagan and Dan Wallace inspect streambank protection project on the Sand Creek Park PL-566 multi-development project. Clarke County, Georgia.Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Jose Pagan and Dan Wallace inspect an outdoor camping shelter on the Sandy Creek Park PL-566 multi-use development project. RC&D assisted in this project.Credit: Jeff Vanuga. | ||
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Henry Thomas Buckle | Some of the most beautiful passages in the apostolic writings are quotations from pagan authors. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Pagan mythology was wrestling with the Christian mythology. |
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Civil Liberties | Lithuania | They were advised to register as NGO's instead; the Osho Center did not register as an association, while part of the Pagan Community did. (references) |
Economic History | Ireland | The pagan druid tradition collapsed in the face of the spread of the new faith, and Irish scholars excelled in the study of Latin learning and Christian theology in the monasteries that shortly flourished. (references) |
Ireland | This pagan society was dominated by druids--priests who served as educators, physicians, poets, diviners, and keepers of the laws and histories. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JOSS-:STICKS:, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. |
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| "Pagan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 82.08% of the time. "Pagan" is used about 307 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 82.08% | 252 | 18,696 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.38% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.54% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 307 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pagan" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pagan | Last name | 10,000 | 1,206 |
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Expression using "pagan": pagan religion. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pagan": pagan-dominated. | |
Ending with "pagan": techno-pagan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pagan | 2,270 |
pagan graphic | 229 |
pagan jewelry | 195 |
pagan supply | 151 |
pagan religion | 140 |
pagan symbol | 140 |
houston pagan | 123 |
event houston pagan | 108 |
pagan wiccan | 97 |
pagan art | 87 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pagan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pagan (gentile, heathen, heathenish, paganish). (various references) | |
Arabic | وثني (ethnic, ethnical, gentile, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, profane), الوثني (idolater). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | езичник (gentile, heathen, infidel), езически (heathen, heathenish, paganish, profane, unchristian, uncircumcised), атеистичен (atheistic), атеист (atheist, freethinker, infidel). (various references) | |
Czech | pohanský (gentile, heathen, paganish), pohan (heathen), neznaboh (heathen). (various references) | |
Dutch | heidens. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pagano, pagana. (various references) | |
Faeroese | heidningur. (various references) | |
Farsi | مشرک (Heathen), کافر (Ethnic, Heathen, Impious, Infidel, Paynim), غیرمسیحی (Unchristian), بت پرست (Heathen, Idolatry, Ilolater). (various references) | |
Finnish | pakanallinen (heathen), pakana (heathen). (various references) | |
French | païen. (various references) | |
German | heidnisch (gentile, heathen). (various references) | |
Greek | ειδωλολάτρησ (gentile), ειδωλολατρικόσ (gentile, heathenish), ειδολολάτρησ (heathen, idolater). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פ'ן, עוב" אלילים (heathen, idolator), אלילי (heathenish, idolatrous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pogány (heathen, infidel, paganish, profane). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyembah berhala. (various references) | |
Italian | pagano (heathen, paganish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 異教' (heretic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いきょうと (heretic). (various references) | |
Manx | paganagh (heathen). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pagano. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aganpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pagão (gentile, gentility, heathen, heathenism, pagandom, paganish, profane, prophetess, unchristian), péon. (various references) | |
Romanian | pãgân (heathen, infidel, paganish, paynim), idolatru (idolater, idolatrous), închinãtor la zei. (various references) | |
Russian | язычник (gentile, heathen, infidel), неверующий (disbeliever, irreligious, non believer, nonbeliever, unbeliever, unbelieving, ungodly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paganski (gentile, heathen), paganin (heath-hen), pagan (gentile), neznabožački (heathenish), mnogobožac. (various references) | |
Spanish | pagano (heathen, heathenish, infidel, payer, scapegoat, victim). (various references) | |
Swedish | hednisk (heathen, paganish), hedning (gentile, heathen, infidel). (various references) | |
Turkish | putperest (heathen, heathenish, idolater, idolatress, profane, worshipper of idols), kâfír. (various references) | |
Ukranian | язичник (ethnic, heathen, infidel), язичеський (ethnic, ethnical, gentile, heathenish, infidel), неосвічена людина (illiterate). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người theo đạo nhiều thần người tối dạ, người t giáo (paynim). (various references) | |
Welsh | paganaidd (heathen), pagan (heathen), cenhedlig (gentile). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ethnici, ethnicus, paganus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | gentilis, paganus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pagan": pagandom, pagandoms, paganise, paganised, paganises, paganish, paganising, paganism, paganisms, paganist, paganists, paganize, paganized, paganizer, paganizers, paganizes, paganizing, pagans. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pagan": nonpagan. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pagan": counterpropaganda, counterpropagandas, nonpagans, propaganda, propagandas, propagandist, propagandistic, propagandistically, propagandists, propagandize, propagandized, propagandizer, propagandizers, propagandizes, propagandizing. (additional references) | |
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"Pagan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agan, apan, Cagan, Gagan, Nagan, Paban, pacan, Padana, Padarn, paegan, paga, pagaan, pagain, pagano, pagant, pagean, pagen, pagent, Paggi, pagi, Pagina, pagine, Pagini, pagio, pagn, pago, Pagon, pagona, pagu, Pahang, paian, Paigen, Pajah, pajan, palan, panganic, Paoan, Paran, Parayno, Parga, Payan, peagan, peagen, pegan, pegin, pevan, Piegan, piga, pigen, pigman, pigon, plagal, Plagnac, poga, pogan, pohang, pomganny, powan, Pragna, puga, Pugan, pugman, Pugna, pugnax, Puigjane, punan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pagan" (pronounced pā"gun) |
| 3 | -g u n | Balbriggan, bandwagon, bargain, Bogan, Brannigan, Brogan, cardigan, collagen, dragon, gorgon, hooligan, jargon, Lagan, Logan, longan, Morgan, Morgen, Mulligan, organ, shenanigan, shogun, slogan, snapdragon, Tigon, toboggan, wagon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: panga. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-n-p" | |
-1 letter: anga, pang. | |
-2 letters: aga, ana, gan, gap, nag, nap, pan. | |
-3 letters: aa, ag, an, na, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-n-p" | |
+1 letter: padnag, pagans, pangas, parang. | |
+2 letters: apanage, apogean, grandpa, padnags, pageant, paginal, pangram, paragon, parangs, pawnage. | |
+3 letters: adapting, agrypnia, anaglyph, apanages, appanage, campagna, campagne, campaign, grandpas, lagnappe, nonpagan, pagandom, paganise, paganish, paganism, paganist, paganize, pageants, paginate, pagurian, pangrams, parading, paragons, parasang, parawing, pawnages, phalange, pygmaean, tragopan. | |
+4 letters: agrypnias, anaglyphs, appalling, appanages, appealing, appearing, appeasing, appendage, campaigns, champagne, champaign, gangplank, japanning, lagnappes, lagniappe, mapmaking, napalming, nonpagans, orphanage, packaging, pagandoms, paganised, paganises, paganisms, paganists, paganized, paganizer, paganizes, pageantry, paginated, paginates, pagurians, palpating, pancaking, paragoned, parasangs, parawings, parentage, parlaying, parsonage, partaking, passaging, patronage, pentagram, phalanger, phalanges, placating, ptarmigan, rampaging, sporangia, straphang, taxpaying, tragopans. | |
+5 letters: agapanthus, amputating, anaglyphic, anemograph, antiplague, appareling, appendages, applauding, appraising, asparagine, asperating, asphalting, aspirating, campaigned, campaigner, captaining, carpogonia, catnapping, champagnes, champaigns, diapausing, frangipane, frangipani, gangplanks, heptagonal, japanizing, lagniappes, lapidating, mapmakings, orphanages, pacemaking, paganising, paganizers, paganizing, paginating, pagination, palavering, palisading, palliating, pantograph, paragoning, paralysing, paralyzing, paramagnet, parentages, parmigiana, parmigiano, parsonages, patinating, patronages, pentagonal, pentagrams, phalangeal, phalangers, phanerogam, pharyngeal, placarding, plasmagene, plateauing, playacting, playmaking, prearrange, propaganda, ptarmigans, ramparting, readapting, separating, snapdragon, sporangial, straphangs, topgallant, trapanning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 67 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- --. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a g a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0067 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067736780 |
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