meaning of religious
1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
5. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
6. a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
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