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atheist

noun
/ˈeɪθiɪst/

Etymology

From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).

  1. derived from ἄθεος
  2. derived from atheos
  3. borrowed from athéiste

Definitions

  1. A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

  2. A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity).

    • Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.

  3. A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods)

    A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person.

    • For instance, in Morocco, while a Muslim man is free to marry a non-Muslim woman, provided she is Christian or Jewish, but not Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist, a Muslim woman is only supposed to marry a Muslim man.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Of or relating to atheists or atheism

      Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.

      • He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.
      • God! That majestic name is in the pledge. In doing this the government has already made clear that our country believes in God! We are the majority! Our nation is not Buddhist, not Hinduist, not Atheist, and the list goes on!

    2. To make someone an atheist.

      • The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA