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# cultus

«cultus» in Mova's school dictionary: **The worship of a god, with its rites and ceremonies** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cultuses) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The worship of a god, with its rites and ceremonies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultus/#m1)

2) A religious cult, or a group that shares such worship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales of ancient gods, the religious worship paid to a god such as Apollo, with music and ceremonies

### examples

- In ancient Greece people held a cultus to honour Apollo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultus/#x1)
- The priests led the cultus with song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultus/#x2)
- Old books describe the cultus of the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultus/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cultus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.