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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Shinto

/shĭn'-tōˌ/ · Shin·to · IPA /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/
01 n. One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
  1. 1.
    One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.