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orthodox
has definitions from the fields of Judaism,religion
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[ adjective ] (religion) of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism
Synonyms Examples "Orthodox Judaism" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)One boy said querulously about Orthodox Jews : `` It 's the twentieth century , and they do n't have_to wear beards '' . It appears that an Orthodox girl in the community disrupted plans for an outing sponsored by one of the Jewish service groups because she would not travel on Saturday and , in_addition , required kosher food . Another girl from a relatively large midwestern city described herself as `` the only Orthodox girl in town '' . |
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[ adjective ] adhering to what is commonly accepted
Examples "an orthodox view of the world" Used in print (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)After_all , Shelley is no `` orthodox '' or Hellenic Platonist , and even his `` romantic '' Platonism can be distinguished from that of his contemporaries . (Morley Callaghan, A Passion in Rome....)Or a Protestant , or one of those amusing dogmatic atheists , or a strict orthodox Communist . Devout , orthodox and plain like a family she might meet in Brooklyn or Malta or Ireland . Related terms unorthodox traditional conventional canonic conforming conservative standard orthodoxy |
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[ adjective ] (religion) of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Related terms religion Orthodox_Church Orthodox_Church Orthodox_Church Orthodox_Church |
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