Cult in spanish

Culto

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.

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» 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.

Cult synonyms

rage in spanish: rabia, pronunciation: reɪdʒ part of speech: noun fad in spanish: moda, pronunciation: fæd part of speech: noun craze in spanish: manía, pronunciation: kreɪz part of speech: noun furore in spanish: furor, pronunciation: fʊrɔri part of speech: noun furor in spanish: furor, pronunciation: fjʊrɔr part of speech: noun religious cult in spanish: culto religioso, pronunciation: rɪlɪdʒəskʌlt part of speech: noun
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