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Meaning of "cult figure" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CULT FIGURE

cult figure  [kʌlt ˈfɪɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CULT FIGURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cult figure is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CULT FIGURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of culture. A film, book, musical artist, television series, or video game, among other things, will be said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base. A common component of cult followings is the emotional attachment fans have to the object of the cult following, often identifying themselves and other fans as members of a community. Cult followings are also commonly associated with niche markets. Cult media are often associated with underground culture, and are considered too eccentric, bizarre, controversial, or anti-establishment to be appreciated by the general public. Many cult fans express a certain irony about their devotion. Sometimes, these cult followings cross the border to camp followings. Cult fans of director Ed Wood admire his films not because they consider them to be excellent, but because they are so bad that they become funny and curiously fascinating. The same phenomenon can be observed with things that are appreciated by a certain generation out of nostalgia or childhood memories.

Definition of cult figure in the English dictionary

The definition of cult figure in the dictionary is a person who inspires devotion in a particular group of people.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CULT FIGURE


agar
ˈeɪɡə
bottega
bəˈteɪɡə
configure
ˌkənˈfɪɡə
digger
ˈdɪɡə
disfigure
dɪsˈfɪɡə
double-figure
ˌdʌbəlˈfɪɡə
figure
ˈfɪɡə
Geiger
ˈɡaɪɡə
jaeger
ˈjeɪɡə
ligger
ˈlɪɡə
omega
ˈəʊmɪɡə
Ortega
ɔːˈteɪɡə
prefigure
priːˈfɪɡə
reconfigure
ˌriːkənˈfɪɡə
refigure
riːˈfɪɡə
single-figure
ˌsɪŋɡəlˈfɪɡə
tiger
ˈtaɪɡə
transfigure
trænsˈfɪɡə
trigger
ˈtrɪɡə
vinegar
ˈvɪnɪɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CULT FIGURE

cult
cult film
cult following
cult movie
cultch
culti
cultic
cultigen
cultish
cultishly
cultishness
cultism
cultist
cultivability
cultivable
cultivar
cultivatable
cultivate
cultivated
cultivation

WORDS THAT END LIKE CULT FIGURE

action figure
Chladni figure
cut a good figure
cut a poor figure
Escher figure
father figure
go figure
hourglass figure
impossible figure
index figure
lay figure
ligure
Lissajous figure
solid figure
stick figure
terminal figure

Synonyms and antonyms of cult figure in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cult figure» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CULT FIGURE

Find out the translation of cult figure to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cult figure from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cult figure» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

崇拜的人物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

figura de culto
570 millions of speakers

English

cult figure
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पंथ आंकड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرقم عبادة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

культовой фигурой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

figura de culto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধ্রুব চিত্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

personnage culte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tokoh kultus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kultfigur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カルトフィギュア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

컬트 그림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tokoh kultus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con số giáo phái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வழிபாட்டுப் படம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पंथ आकृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kült figür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

figura di culto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postać kultowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

культовою фігурою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

figură cult
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cult φιγούρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kultusfiguur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kultfigur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kultfigur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cult figure

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CULT FIGURE»

The term «cult figure» is regularly used and occupies the 87.658 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CULT FIGURE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cult figure

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULT FIGURE»

Discover the use of cult figure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cult figure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Apple's Secret Of Success - Traditional Marketing Vs. Cult ...
List of figures Figure 1: Model of Marketing Mix Figure 2: Forms of Cult Figure 3: 7 Golden Rules of Cult Branding Figure 4: Apple's Marketing Patterns Figure 5: Hierarchy of Needs Figure 6: Two-by-Two Grid Figure 7: Strategic Change on the  ...
Sascha Schneiders, 2011
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Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: ...
By Roman times the slab was buried under over a metre of silt, but any Roman looking at the motif and the cult figure would have thought of her as Ceres, while the Greeks would have related her to Demeter — Demeter was actually a ...
Anthony Bonanno, 1986
3
Cult Cinema
failures on their release yet resurrected to great acclaim after his early death from tuberculosis at 29, further established him as a tragic cult figure. The early death can often feed into the cult cre- dentials of an individual, but it needs to intersect ...
Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton, 2012
4
Lenin Lives!: The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia
Some pieces of the idealized cult persona coincided with the real Vladimir Ilich Ulianov- Lenin; others did not. And then the symbol itself went through many shapes and guises: the standard cult figure of the mid-twenties — the martyred hero of ...
Nina Tumarkin, 1997
5
The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in Teh Ruler ...
... 3: 192, 289, 295, 296 seated figure at Lepcis Magna, 3: 239, 245 cult figure at Rome, 3: 240 projected temple at Tarraco, 3: 241, 242 cult figure at Emerita, 3: 245 cult figure at Tarraco, 3: 245 birthday, 3: 251, 369 dedication of Palatine temple ...
Duncan Fishwick, 2005
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Greek Heroine Cults
The usual composition of the heroic relief has been destroyed, but the motifs of offering table and serpent are preserved.24 Just as the death of a heroic cult figure is often the focal point of his or her mythological narrative, the tomb is usually ...
Jennifer Lynn Larson, 1995
7
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of ...
In order to chart and explore the ways in which Pitt has come to be perceived as a cult figure, I gathered, between 2010 and 2012, a range of reception materials associated, in some way, with Pitt and her films. These included press releases ...
Kate Egan, Sarah Thomas, 2012
8
Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream
A New Kind of Cult Thus, Oprah is not exactly a cult figure in the sense of being an important but obscure symbol for any sub- or countercultural cult group. However, we have not, by any means, exhaust the possible definitions of the term cult ...
Bob Batchelor, 2011
9
An Archaeology of Ancestors: Tomb Cult and Hero Cult in ...
A different view in Dietrich 1975: Hyakinthos as a cult figure of a Dorian segment of the Mycenaean population, not the import of an invading band. Cf. also Price 1979:226-27, who thinks that the myth may be Bronze Age, while the hero cult ...
Carla M. Antonaccio, 1994
10
Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly
Although further details of the festival are not forthcoming, Apollo was a major cult figure in every period of Thessaly's history. The month Hermaios suggests a festival of the Hermaia which must be connected with Hermes, although such a ...
Denver Graninger, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CULT FIGURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cult figure is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Live: Carnage as Maroons smash Blues
That embarrassment moved Maroons cult figure Chris 'Choppy' Close to claim Origin was dead, but its resurrection since, in the form of the ... «Fox Sports, Jul 15»
2
“Tommy Bolin 1975″ Tribute Special
Tommy Bolin: singer, songwriter, guitar hero, glam-rock fashion icon, and tragic cult figure (he died at the tender age of 25)… one more time, ... «Wortfm, Jul 15»
3
Why was Lukas Podolski a failure at Arsenal?
Podolski became somewhat of a cult figure at Arsenal, due to his active and rather humorous use of social media, however Galatasaray fans ... «VAVEL.com, Jul 15»
4
Micachu & The Shapes announce new album Good Bad Happy Sad
The LP features Goldberg and his pal, cult figure Michael Yonkers, who helped finance the album after receiving a sum of money after suffering ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Jul 15»
5
Promoters drop Russian rock star for waving Ukrainian flag on stage
Zemfira gave the popular songstress, who has been a cult figure in Russia since the late 1990s, a Ukrainian flag as she performed in the ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
6
Didier Drogba talks about his Chelsea career in interview with Rio …
Drogba joined the Blues from Marseille in the summer of 2004 and has since gone on to become a cult figure at Stamford Bridge. During his ... «Sportskeeda, Jul 15»
7
SACP to discuss future in the alliance
The M&G reported last month that the party, which helped propel Jacob Zuma to power, regrets replacing Thabo Mbeki with a cult figure and ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
8
Electronic music pioneer Charanjit Singh dies aged 74
Electronic music pioneer Charanjit Singh, 74, has died. The cult figure, who was noted by some as the creator of the first ever acid house record ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
Review: Amy
... Awards in 2008 for her Back to Black album, the late British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse can hardly be described as a cult figure. «bestofneworleans.com, Jul 15»
10
Caribbean catches on to #lynnsanity
His shot making and excellent fielding has made him a bit of a cult figure in T20 cricket. He is currently playing for the Jamaica Tallawahs at the ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cult figure [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cult-figure>. May 2024 ».
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