Usually means: Repeated actions with symbolic meaning.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ritual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ritual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ritual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ritual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ritual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ritual, ritual: Wordnik
  7. ritual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ritual: Wiktionary
  9. ritual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ritual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ritual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ritual: Dictionary.com
  13. ritual (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ritual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Ritual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ritual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ritual: Rhymezone
  19. Ritual (nt), ritual, ritual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ritual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ritual: Free Dictionary
  22. ritual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ritual: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ritual-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ritual: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ritual: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. ritual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ritual: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. ritual: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. RITUAL: Masonic Dictionary
  3. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. ritual: Anthropological Terms
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ritual: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ritual: Sports Definitions

(Note: See ritually as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
noun:  A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.

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