Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: heathen
IPA transcription: [h'iðən]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: heathen, heathenish, pagan, ethnic
    Meaning: not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: heathen, pagan, gentile, infidel
    Meaning: a person who does not acknowledge your god
Usage examples
  • Are there any Methodist heathen?
  • It had all come of reading heathen works exclusively.
  • How different from the words carved over heathen tombs!
  • We know what these were like, for not very far away is a heathen catacomb.
  • Have you thought what may be in them--great heathen temples, idols, perhaps?"
  • I s'pose I ought to give my box to them, rather than to Presbyterian heathen."
  • I guess the Presbyterians can get along without it, and look after their own heathen."
  • His coming at such an opportune moment filled the hearts of their heathen enemies with fear.
  • Homer's book belongs to the forgotten past, for the heathen religion of Greece is to-day as though it had never been.
  • Their heathen tormentors had a horror of death, and therefore among the quiet dead the Christians were safe for a while.