pagan
noun /ˈpeɪɡən/
/ˈpeɪɡən/
- a person who holds religious beliefs that are not part of any of the world’s main religions
Topics Religion and festivalsc2异教徒(信奉非主流宗教者) - (often disapproving) used in the past by Christians to describe a person who did not believe in Christianity
Topics Religion and festivalsc2教外人(旧时的基督徒用以指非基督徒)
词源late Middle English: from Latin paganus ‘villager, rustic’, from pagus ‘country district’. Latin paganus also meant ‘civilian’, becoming, in Christian Latin, ‘heathen’ (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ).