Cult in spanish
Culto
pronunciation: kultoʊ part of speech: noun
pronunciation: kultoʊ part of speech: noun
In gestures
cult = culto, adoración, veneración.
Example: The cult of information forms the catalyst for a discussion of the ways in which information has acquired folkloristic status as the major way in which people look at the world.more:
» cargo cult = culto al cargo, culto al cargamento, culto a la carga, culto a la inutilidad. [Adoración de los productos llevados por el hombre blanco a algunas zonas del pacífico ]
Example: Sociologists specializing in Melanesian religions say all the cargo cults are based on a mixture of native and Christian beliefs and rituals.» cult building = edificio de culto, casa de culto.
Example: Pylons were often decorated with scenes emphasizing a king's authority since it was the public face of a cult building.» cult figure = ídolo, figura de culto.
Example: In his early years he consciously emulated both the painterly style and persona of the much-admired artist Drouais, who became something of a cult figure in early 19th c. Paris.» cult hero = ídolo, figura de culto.
Example: His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.» cult movie = película de culto.
Example: Many of his films had all the ingredients of cult movies: intensely personal tones; a multitude of brilliant, sometimes outlandish touches; fetishistic observations; and challenges to the censors and taboos of the day.» cult object = objeto de culto.
Example: The author examines the history of the image, understood as personal simulacrum and cult object.» cult of domesticity, the = culto a la domesticidad, el.
Example: Prior to and during the Cult of Domesticity, women were politically inferior to men and did not share equal rights as citizens.» cult of life = culto a la vida.
Example: The more you learn of their civilization, however, the more you come to know that what the ancient Egyptians truly developed was a cult of life.» cult of money = culto al dinero.
Example: Justification for such selfishness is to be found in the cult of money, not in the Gospels.» cult of the body = culto al cuerpo.
Example: He sees the cult of the body as an indication that America is no longer puritanical, if it ever was.» personality cult = culto a la personalidad.
Example: In fact, it failed because it was a personality-cult magazine.