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ˈhi ðənhea·then

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  1. heathen, pagan, gentile, infideladjective

    a person who does not acknowledge your god

    Synonyms:
    infidel, goy, non-Jew, pagan, gentile, pleasure seeker, hedonist

    Antonyms:
    religious

  2. heathen, heathenish, pagan, ethnicadjective

    not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

    Synonyms:
    ethnical, cultural, heathenish, ethnic, pagan

    Antonyms:
    religious

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. heathenn. a.

    Synonyms:
    gentile, pagan, heathenish

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  1. heathenadjective

    Synonyms:
    pagan, heathenish, paganic, gentile, paganish, irreligious, godless

  2. heathennoun

    Synonyms:
    pagan, idolater

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "heathen":

    pagan, atheist

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How to use heathen in a sentence?

  1. Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad:

    Whoever offends our religion and our honor, must understand that this is a conflict about life and death, the cartoonist has become a fighting heathen whom it is permissible to kill.

  2. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

    Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

  3. Carl Jung:

    The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

    I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  5. George Eliot:

    It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.


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