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cult | culm |

As a noun cult

is a group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.

As an adjective cult

is of, or relating to a cult.

As a proper noun culm is

a german bishopric, founded in 1234.

cult

English

(wikipedia cult)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
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  • Devotion to a saint.
  • (lb) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

    • Derived terms

    * cargo cult * cultic * cultist

    See also

    * sect

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to a cult.
  • Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
    • a cult horror movie

    Usage notes

    The term has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups.

    Anagrams

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    culm

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps related to (coal). Perhaps from (etyl) , applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: compare Old English culme.

    Noun

  • waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
  • * 1887 , Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker , Chapter XXI:
    • Here he lay down on a place soft with culm , to take his contemplated rest, and, before he was aware of it, sleep had descended on him, overpowered him, and bound him fast.
  • anthracite, especially when found in small masses

    • Etymology 2

    Borrowed from (etyl) culmus .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge
  • * 1962 , , page 150:
    • ...because, upon hearing him out, she sank down on the lawn in an impossible posture, examining a grass culm and frowning, he had taken his words back at once;...