noun, adjective
noun (old-fashioned, offensive)
1 used by people who have a strong religious belief as a way of referring to a person who has no religion or who believes in a religion that is not one of the world's main religions
2 used to refer to a person who shows lack of education
adjective (old-fashioned, offensive) connected with heathens:
heathen gods * He set out to convert the heathen (= people who are heathens).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for heathen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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