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Iconoclast has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a destroyer of images used in religious worship

2

someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions

3

One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
destroyer attacker

Origin

The word comes from Medieval Latin and originally meant "image breaker." It was formed by combining the Greek words for image and to break.

Rhyming Words
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