Shinto Definition

shĭntō
noun
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.
Webster's New World
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Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.

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Origin of Shinto

  • From Japanese 神道 (しんとう Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (ʒin-dáu "ways of the gods"), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (Cə-lin kə-lˤuʔ "ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]").

    From Wiktionary

  • Japanese shintō shin god (from Middle Chinese sfiin) (also the source of Mandarin shén spirit, god) tō, dō art, way aikido

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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