noun
a subdivision of a larger religious group (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑sect, ↑religious sect
• Hypernyms: ↑religion, ↑faith, ↑organized religion
• Hyponyms:
↑sisterhood, ↑Albigenses, ↑Cathars, ↑Cathari, ↑High Church, ↑High Anglican Church, ↑Abecedarian, ↑Amish sect, ↑Karaites, ↑Shiah, ↑Shia, ↑Shiah Islam, ↑Sunni, ↑Sunni Islam, ↑Shivaism, ↑Sivaism, ↑Shaktism, ↑Saktism, ↑Vaishnavism, ↑Vaisnavism, ↑Haredi, ↑Hare Krishna, ↑International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ↑ISKCON, ↑Jainism, ↑Taoism, ↑Kokka Shinto, ↑Kokka, ↑Shuha Shinto, ↑Shua, ↑brethren, ↑order, ↑monastic order, ↑Religious Society of Friends, ↑Society of Friends, ↑Quakers, ↑Shakers, ↑United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, ↑Waldenses, ↑Vaudois, ↑Zurvanism
• Part Meronyms: ↑convent
Useful english dictionary. 2012.