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Definitions for Pagan

[1] (no longer in technical use) one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.
[2] a member of a religious, spiritual, or cultural community based on the worship of nature or the earth; a neopagan.
[3] Disparaging and Offensive . (in historical contexts) a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen. an irreligious or hedonistic person. an uncivilized or unenlightened person.
[4] of, relating to, or characteristic of pagans.
[5] Disparaging and Offensive . relating to the worship or worshipers of any religion that is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim. irreligious or hedonistic. (of a person) uncivilized or unenlightened.
[6] a member of a group professing a polytheistic religion or any religion other than Christianity, Judaism, or Islam
[7] a person without any religion; heathen
[8] of or relating to pagans or their faith or worship
[9] heathen; irreligious

Words related to Pagan

atheist, agnostic, heathen, infidel, doubter, unbeliever, heretic, skeptic, iconoclast, freethinker, polytheist, scoffer, idolater, pantheist, atheistic, idolatrous, impious, profane, polytheistic, paganist

Words nearby Pagan

paesiello, paestum, paf, pag, pagad, pagan, pagandom, paganini, paganism, paganize, page

Origin of Pagan

1325–75; Middle English < Medieval Latin, Late Latin pāgānus ‘worshiper of false gods’, orig. ‘civilian’ (i.e., not a soldier of Christ), Latin: ‘peasant’, noun use of pāgānus ‘rural, civilian’, derivative of pāgus ‘village, rural district’ (akin to pangere ‘to fix, make fast’); see -an

Other words from Pagan

pa·gan·ish , adjective
pa·gan·ish·ly , adverb
non·pa·gan , noun, adjective
non·pa·gan·ish , adjective
pseu·do·pa·gan , adjective
sem·i·pa·gan , noun, adjective
sem·i·pa·gan·ish , adjective
un·pa·gan , adjective

Word origin for Pagan

C14: from Church Latin pāgānus civilian (hence, not a soldier of Christ), from Latin: countryman, villager, from pāgus village

Synonyms for Pagan

agnostic, heathen, infidel, atheistic, idolatrous, impious, polytheistic, profane