different between cult vs league

English

Etymology

From French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from col? (“cultivate; protect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

cult (plural cults)

1. (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.
2. Devotion to a saint.

3. The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context.

4. A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.
5. (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

Derived terms

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Adjective

cult (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a cult.
2. Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

   a cult horror movie

3. Alternative form of kvlt.

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.

Translations

See also

• new religious movement
• sect

Anagrams

• CLUT, L cut

Friulian

Pronunciation

Noun

cult m (plural cults)

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Ladin

Pronunciation

Noun

cult m (plural cults)

1. cult, religion

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kylt/

Noun

cult m

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English cult. Doublet of culto.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kuwt??/

Adjective

cult (invariable, comparable)

1. cult (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)

Romanian

Etymology

From French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from col? (“cultivate; protect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kult/

Noun

cult n (plural culte)

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Declension

Derived terms

• cultic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

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Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

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References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege