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# heathen

«heathen» in Mova's school dictionary: **Old use: a person who does not follow one of the main…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (heathens); adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) Old use: a person who does not follow one of the main world religions, often one who worships other gods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heathen/#m1)

2) (adjective) Relating to such people or their beliefs; old-fashioned and can sound rude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heathen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

old use, in old stories and fairy tales; in the lessons it names people in another land or in olden times who are not Christian or who worship other gods

### examples

- The guests called him a heathen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heathen/#x1)
- The heathen king was generous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heathen/#x2)
- They lived as heathens in the old days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heathen/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1401/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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