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ANIMAL-WORSHIP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does animal-worship mean?
• ANIMAL-WORSHIP (noun)
The noun ANIMAL-WORSHIP has 1 sense:
1. the worship of animals
Familiarity information: ANIMAL-WORSHIP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The worship of animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
animal-worship; zoolatry
Hypernyms ("animal-worship" is a kind of...):
worship (the activity of worshipping)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal-worship"):
fish-worship; ichthyolatry (the worship of fish)
ophiolatry; serpent-worship (the worship of snakes)
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