Crossword-Solution: SECT 4 letters, 390 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Sect	n.	A cutting; a scion.
Sect	n.	Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SECT	anagram	CEST, CSET, ECTS, ETCS, TECS

We have 390 clues for the answer “SECT”

Clue	Answers
"The Joy of ___" ("The Simpsons" episode about a cult)	1 answer
*Cut up, in Bio 101	1 answer
Religious subgroup	1 answer
A chip off the old flock?	1 answer
A group united by a specific doctrine or under a leader	1 answer
A school.	1 answer
A separate body	1 answer
A small group	1 answer
Abbr. on a stadium ticket	1 answer
Abbr. on an arena ticket	1 answer
Amish or Mennonites	1 answer
Amish, for one	1 answer
Anabaptists, e.g.	1 answer
Anabaptists, for one	1 answer
Black Muslims, for one	1 answer
Branch group	1 answer
Branch of a religion	1 answer
Branch of a sort	1 answer
Branch of religion	1 answer
Branch with followers	1 answer
Breakaway branch	1 answer
Breakaway bunch	1 answer
Breakaway group	1 answer
Breakaway religious group	1 answer
Breakout group	1 answer
Broken-away group	1 answer
Broken-off branch	1 answer
CHURCH splinter group	1 answer
Cainites e.g.	1 answer
Camp away from the middle of the road	1 answer
Certain branch	1 answer
Certain offshoot	1 answer
Certain spin-off	1 answer
Certain subdivision	1 answer
Chip off the old bloc?	1 answer
Chip off the old flock	1 answer
Church branch	1 answer
Church camp?	1 answer
Church faction	1 answer
Clan's cousin	1 answer
Conventicle group	1 answer
Cult cousin	1 answer
Cult group	1 answer
Cult's cousin	1 answer
Cult; school	1 answer
Cut: Comb form.	1 answer
Cut: Suffix	1 answer
Denomination offshoot	1 answer
Denominational offshoot	1 answer
Devotees, perhaps	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EARTE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SECT (5)

Then she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Besides these Dervishes, were other three who had rushed into another sect, which mended matters with a jargon about “the Centre of Truth:” holding that Man had got out of the Centre of Truth--which did not need much demonstration--but had not got out of the Circumference, and that he was to be kept from flying out of the Circumference, and was even to be shoved back into the Centre, by fasting and seeing of spirits.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

The Stundists--a sect--being broken up and dispersed; the clergy refusing first to marry, then to bury a Protestant.

The Forged Coupon and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1995

After many mishaps and wanderings, Hasan became the head of the Persian sect of the Ismailians,--a party of fanatics who had long murmured in obscurity, but rose to an evil eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam 1995

Quotes with SECT (3)

Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of …

Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,099 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).