shinto
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/ˈʃɪn.təʊ/
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/ˈʃɪn.təʊ/ (UK) · /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/ (US)
Definition of shinto
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
“The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.”
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name
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Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
“The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.”
adj
- (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowing from Japanese 神道 (Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC zyin dawX, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]”).
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