heathen
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 →
2) (adjective) Relating to such people or their beliefs; old-fashioned and can sound rude. tree →
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 →
- The heathen king was generous. tree →
- They lived as heathens in the old days. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heathen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.