Usually means: Group with extreme, controlling beliefs.
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  1. cult: Merriam-Webster
  2. cult: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cult: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cult: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cult: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cult, cult: Wordnik
  7. cult: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cult: Wiktionary
  9. cult: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cult: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cult: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cult, cult: Dictionary.com
  13. cult: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cult: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Cult: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cult: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cult: Rhymezone
  19. cult: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cult: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cult: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cult: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cult: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cult-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cult (religious practice): Legal dictionary

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  1. cult: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cult: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. cult: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CULT: Acronym Finder
  4. cult: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cult: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See cultic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
noun:  (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
noun:  (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.
adjective:  Of or relating to a cult.
adjective:  Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
adjective:  (neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt. [(music, slang, humorous) True to the ideology of black metal or a stereotypical manifestation of that subculture.]

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