Usually means: Adhering strictly to traditional beliefs.
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  1. orthodox: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. orthodox: Merriam-Webster
  3. Orthodox, orthodox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. orthodox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Orthodox, orthodox: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orthodox, orthodox: Wordnik
  7. orthodox: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Orthodox, orthodox: Wiktionary
  9. orthodox: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. orthodox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. orthodox: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Orthodox, orthodox: Dictionary.com
  13. orthodox: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. orthodox: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Orthodox (album), Orthodox (boxing), Orthodox (disambiguation), Orthodox: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Orthodox: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. orthodox: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. orthodox: Rhymezone
  19. orthodox, orthodox, orthodox: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. orthodox: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. orthodox: FreeDictionary.org
  22. orthodox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. orthodox: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. orthodox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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  1. orthodox: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  1. orthodox: Legal dictionary

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  1. orthodox: Encyclopedia

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  2. orthodox: Medical dictionary

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  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
adjective:  Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.
adjective:  Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
adjective:  Of a branch of Judaism.
adjective:  (botany) Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
adjective:  (Christianity) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
adjective:  (Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
adjective:  (Judaism) Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
adjective:  (Quakerism) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.
noun:  (uncommon) An Orthodox Christian.
noun:  (rare) An Orthodox Jew.

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