RELIGIOUS RIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious right mean? 

• RELIGIOUS RIGHT (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS RIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS RIGHT (noun)

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Meaning:

United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("religious right" is a kind of...):

right; right wing (those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged)