English-Italian translations for cult

• culto
  Una simile politica, invece, non farà che dare un nuovo, malefico impulso al culto della violenza e della morte. All it will do is to give a malign new impulse to a cult of violence and death.
  E’ nota anche per essere un museo sovietico vivente dove è ancora vivo il culto di Lenin e di Stalin. It is also known as a living Soviet museum, with the continued cult of Lenin and Stalin.
  Un ridicolo culto della personalità ha il compito di conferire al capo dello Stato uno status quasi di divinità. A ludicrous cult of personality is designed to give the Head of State a quasi-divine status.

Definition of cult

• A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members
• Devotion to a saint
• A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology
• Of or relating to a cult

Examples

• Oh my gosh, Im in a repressive cult! How can I leave it?
• a cult horror movie

Related words

• difficult
• culture
• cultivated
• cultured
• intercultural
• multicultural
• faculty
• auscultate
• agriculture