sect

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
    — a religious sect
  2. An ancient astrological concept, a form of polarity by which heavenly bodies were designated as either diurnal or nocturnal. historical,uncountable
  3. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
    — Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.
  4. A cutting; a scion. obsolete

词形变化

sects plural

词汇关系

上位词
religion denomination
衍生词
sectant sectism sectist sectwise subsect
相关词
sectarian sectish cult

词源

From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, guild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of secō.
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