multireligious

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adjective

Having, or being home to, multiple religions.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivemultireligious (comparative more multireligious, superlative most multireligious)

comparative more multireligious · superlative most multireligious

  1. Having, or being home to, multiple religions.

    Despite their being multiethnic and multireligious democracies with an entrepreneurial streak, the two countries had drifted apart during the cold war[…]

    2009 January 10, Anand Giridharadas, “India Has a Soft Spot for Bush”, in New York Times
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    On the basis of these criteria, which have to be spelled out and applied, we can describe and evaluate the monoreligious, multireligious and interreligious models for dealing with religious plurality in an educational context.

    2001, Carl Sterkens, Interreligious Learning […] , BRILL, →ISBN, page 49

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*moltos
  2. Latinmultus
  3. Latinmultī
  4. Middle Englishmulti-
  5. Englishmulti-
  6. Englishreligious
  7. Englishmultireligious

From multi- + religious.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Polish wieloreligijny
  • wieloreligijnybeing home to multiple religion
Swedish mångreligiös
  • mångreligiösbeing home to multiple religion
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APA

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Chicago

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