adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Shinto
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈʃɪn.təʊ/
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US: /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/
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rhymes with (UK) -ɪntəʊ
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rhymes with (US) -ɪntoʊ
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CMU ARPABET: SH IH1 N T OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
relating to or characteristic of Shintoism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Shinto temples
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Shintoist, Shintoistic
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Shintoism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religion, faith, religious belief
noun
Meaning 5
the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religion, faith, organized religion
History
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]”).
Across languages
Translations
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: sjintoïsme — religion
- Arabic: شِنْتَوِيَّة (šintawiyya) — religion
- Arabic: شِنْتُو (šintū) — religion
- Aragonese: xintoísmo — religion
- Azerbaijani: sintoizm — religion
- Belarusian: сінтаі́зм (sintaízm) — religion
- Bulgarian: шинтои́зъм (šintoízǎm) — religion
- Catalan: xintoisme — religion
- Chinese Cantonese: 神道 (san4 dou6) — religion
- Chinese: 神道 (sîn-tō) — religion
- Chinese Mandarin: 神道 (shéndào) — religion
- Czech: šintoismus — religion
- Dutch: Shintoïsme — religion
- Esperanto: ŝintoismo — religion
- Esperanto: Ŝintoo — religion
- Estonian: sintoism — religion
- Finnish: šintolaisuus — religion
- Finnish: šinto — religion
- French: shintoïsme — religion
- French: shinto — religion
- Frisian: sjintoisme — religion
- Friulian: sintoisim — religion
- Georgian: შინტოიზმი (šinṭoizmi) — religion
- German: Schintoismus — religion
- German: Shintoismus — religion
- German: Sintoismus — religion
- Greek: σιντοϊσμός (sintoïsmós) — religion
- Hebrew: שינטו (shinto) — religion
- Hindi: शिन्तो धर्म (śinto dharm) — religion
- Hungarian: sintó — religion
- Hungarian: sintoizmus — religion
- Icelandic: sjintóismi — religion
- Indonesian: Shinto — religion
- Italian: shintoismo — religion
- Italian: scintoismo — religion
- Japanese: 神道 (shintō) — religion
- Korean: 신도 (sindo) — religion
- Korean: 신토 (sinto) — religion
- Central Kurdish: شینتۆ (şînto) — religion
- Latvian: sintoisms — religion
- Ligurian: scintoiximo — religion
- Lithuanian: šintoizmas — religion
- Low German: Schintoismus — religion
- Luxembourgish: Schintoismus — religion
- Macedonian: шинтои́зам (šintoízam) — religion
- Malay: Syinto — religion
- Malayalam: ഷിന്റൊ (ṣinṟo) — religion
- Marathi: शिंतो (śinto) — religion
- Persian: شینتو (šinto) — religion
- Polish: szinto — religion
- Polish: szintoizm — religion
- Portuguese: xintoísmo — religion
- Romanian: șintoism — religion
- Russian: синтои́зм (sintoízm) — religion
- Samogitian: šintoėzmos — religion
- Serbo-Croatian: шинтоизам — religion
- Serbo-Croatian: šintoizam — religion
- Sicilian: shintuismu — religion
- Slovak: šintoizmus — religion
- Slovene: šintoizem — religion
- Spanish: sintoísmo — religion
- Swedish: shintoism — religion
- Swedish: shinto — religion
- Tamil: சின்த்தோ (ciṉttō) — religion
- Telugu: షింటోయిజం (ṣiṇṭōyijaṁ) — religion
- Thai: ชินโต (chin-dtoh) — religion
- Turkish: şinto — religion
- Ukrainian: синтої́зм (syntojízm) — religion
- Vietnamese: Thần đạo — religion