English Dictionary

cult

IPA（発音記号）

/kʌlt/

名詞

軽蔑的 くだけた表現

(chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.

日本語の意味

極端な信仰や思想に基づく教団、特に社会の主流から隔絶された異端の集団。 / 極端な献身を示す、カリスマ的指導者に従う宗教的または哲学的なグループ。

She realized too late that the group she had joined was a cult that isolated members from their families and demanded unquestioning loyalty to its leader.

彼女は参加した集団が家族を孤立させ、指導者への無条件の忠誠を要求するカルト教団だと気づくのが遅すぎた。

意味（1）

(chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.

Two former cult members explain the difficulties they had extricating themselves from it.

意味（2）

The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.

the cult of Apollo

意味（3）

(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

the heavy metal cult; the cult of basketball; the guitarist's cult of loyal fans; the cult of celebrity

cults （ plural ）