<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.</li><li>an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.</li><li>the object of such devotion.</li><li>a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.</li><li>Sociology: a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.</li><li>a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.</li><li>the members of such a religion or sect.</li><li>any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.</li></ul>