pago-, pag-, pagan- +

1. Identified as a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc.; as represented by various deities: "Neopaganism is said to combine the worship of nature deities of the earth, with benign witchcraft."

Certain beliefs and practices of neopaganism are disimilar or different in that some people attempt to reconcile different, even opposing, beliefs of various religious practices, folk customs, and ritual techniques."

Some members of neopaganism observe a specific ancient religion to a degree that can border on historical re-enactment while other neopagans practice a spirituality that is entirely modern in origin."

"Some adherents of neopaganism often have deep ecological concerns and an attachment to nature; so, many worship an earth-mother goddess and center their rituals on the change of the seasons."

2. A modern-religious movement which strives to incorporate beliefs or ritual practices from the religions that are not a part of the main world religions; especially, those of pre-Christian Europe and North America: "Neopaganism includes a combination of ancient and modern factors in which nature worship is influenced by modern environmentalism."

1. A reference to a follower of an ancient polytheistic or pantheistic religion: "They were adherents or followers of a pagan group of worshipers."

"The pagan idols were destroyed by the Christian missionaries."

2. Applied by some people to anyone who apparently has no religious beliefs; a heathen: "Those who are members of religions consider pagan people to be those who are non-religious; such as, atheists, agnostics, etc."

1. An offensive term that deliberately insults someone who does not acknowledge the God of the Bible, Torah, or Koran: "A pagan has been identified as a person who holds religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions."

"Some pagans worshiped the gods of fire and rain."

"Pagans are still defined by some religious leaders as those who are not members of their particular religions or those whose religions are regarded as questionable."

"Pagan in the religious sense is often said to derive from conservative rural adherence to the old gods after the Christianization of Roman towns and cities"

2. Etymology: from about 1375, Late Latin paganus, "rustic, peasant", in classical Latin, "villager, rustic, civilian", from pagus, "rural district".

"The Romans considered those who lived in outlying villages as uncouth, uneducated people who didn't know much about culture, manners, or the dominent religion of the time."

1. That part of the world inhabited by pagans.
2. The pagan lands; pagans, collectively.

1. Someone who does not acknowledge your God.
2. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.

1. A pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
2. The beliefs or practices of pagans.
3. The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; especially, the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
4. The word, paganism is attested, or affirmed, by some authorities to be from 1433.

Someone who is identified by either his or her religious beliefs that are generally different from major religions, or in some cases, by the lack of any affiliation with any form of religious worship: "There was a group of paganists who declared that they were heathens or completely irreligious because they considered all religions as being unrealistic and mythological."

1. To make efforts to convert others to paganism.
2. To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.