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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, especially an adherent of a polytheistic religion in antiquity.
  2. n. A Neo-Pagan.
  3. n. Offensive One who has no religion.
  4. n. Offensive A non-Christian.
  5. n. A hedonist.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who is not a Christian or a member of a Christian community; in a later narrower sense, one who does not worship the true God—that is, is not a Christian, a Jew, or a Mohammedan; a heathen. See the quotation from Trench; see also paynim.
  2. n. A heathenish or ungodly person; in old slang, a prostitute.
  3. n. Synonyms Heathen, etc. See gentile, n.
  4. Pertaining to the worship or worshipers of any religion which is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Mohammedan; heathenish; irreligious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. relating to, characteristic of or adhering to non-biblical religions, especially earlier polytheism.
  2. adj. savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.
  3. n. A person not adhering to any major or recognized religion, especially a heathen or non-Christian (often derogatory), follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion, neopagan.
  4. n. An uncivilized or unsocialized person
  5. n. Especially an unruly, badly educated child.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, .

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
  2. n. a person who does not acknowledge your god
  3. n. a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew)
  4. adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Late Latin pāgānus, from Latin, country-dweller, civilian, from pāgus, country, rural district; see pag- in Indo-European roots.

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