Meaning Of The Word Shinto

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Shinto
uncountable noun: Shinto is the traditional religion of Japan.

Shinto in American English
a principal religion of Japan, with emphasis upon the worship of nature and of ancestors and ancient heroes and upon the divinity of the emperor: prior to 1945, the state religion
adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Shinto
noun: the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship

Shinto in British English
noun: the indigenous religion of Japan, polytheistic in character and incorporating the worship of a number of ethnic divinities, from the chief of which the emperor is believed to be descended

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