Heathen - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈhiːðn|  American pronunciation of the word heathen
Brit.  |ˈhiːð(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word heathen

noun

- a person who does not acknowledge your god (syn: gentile, infidel, pagan)

adjective

- not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam (syn: ethnic, heathenish, pagan)

Extra examples

...old missionaries who mistakenly thought that they were going off to China to tame the heathen hordes...

...a missionary sent to distant lands to convert the heathens...

...European colonizers, who considered the New World peoples to be heathens, forced them to conform to European ways....

Word forms

noun
singular: heathen
plural: heathens
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