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Definition of cult
1
: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious (see spurious sense 2)
also
: its body of adherents
the voodoo cult a satanic cult
2a
: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (such as a film or book)
criticizing how the media promotes the cult of celebrity
especially
: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b
: the object of such devotion
c
: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
the singer's cult of fans The film has a cult following.
3
: a system of religious beliefs and ritual
also
: its body of adherents
the cult of Apollo
4
: formal religious veneration : worship
5
: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
health cults