Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

world religion

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

Syllables: world re-li-gion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An internationally widespread religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations.

Example Sentences

"Christianity is a world religion consisting of Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestants."
"It is seen that religious evolution through the ages has been practically One thing - that there has been in fact a World-religion, though with various phases and branches."
"While vast barriers may seem to stretch between a local, single-focus contention of pseudoscience and something like a world religion, the partitions are very thin."

Inflected Forms

world religions (plural)

Questions

What does world religion mean?: An internationally widespread religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations.

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