Usually means: Repeated actions with symbolic meaning.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word ritual:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ritual: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ritual: Merriam-Webster
  3. ritual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ritual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ritual: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ritual: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ritual, ritual: Wordnik
  8. ritual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ritual: Wiktionary
  10. ritual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ritual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ritual: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ritual: Dictionary.com
  14. ritual (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ritual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ritual. (Master's Hammer album), Ritual (Delerium song), Ritual (Fernando Otero album), Ritual (In This Moment album), Ritual (Los Piojos album), Ritual (Marshmello song), Ritual (Oomph! album), Ritual (Peter Frohmader album), Ritual (Pinner novel), Ritual (Shaaman album), Ritual (Shaman album), Ritual (Soulfly album), Ritual (The Black Dahlia Murder album), Ritual (White Lies album), Ritual (album), Ritual (band), Ritual (company), Ritual (disambiguation), Ritual (electronic band), Ritual (post-punk band), Ritual (song), Ritual, The Ritual (Sabac album), The Ritual (Testament album), The Ritual (film), The Ritual (novel), The Ritual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ritual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ritual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ritual: Rhymezone
  20. Ritual (nt), ritual, ritual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ritual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ritual: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ritual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ritual: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ritual-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ritual: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ritual: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. ritual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ritual: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ritual: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. ritual: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. RITUAL: Masonic Dictionary
  3. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. ritual: Anthropological Terms
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ritual: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ritual: Sports Definitions

(Note: See ritually as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
noun:  A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.

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