–adjective

1.	of, pertaining to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.

2.	imbued with or exhibiting religion; pious; devout; godly: a religious man.

3.	scrupulously faithful; conscientious: religious care.

4.	pertaining to or connected with a monastic o 1c9f r religious order.

5.	appropriate to religion or to sacred rites or observances.

–noun

6.	a member of a religious order, congregation, etc.; a monk, friar, or nun.

7.	the religious, devout or religious persons: Each year, thousands of the religious make pilgrimages to the shrine.

–noun

1.	an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

2.	the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.

3.	musical work or compositions for singing or playing.

4.	the written or printed score of a musical composition.

5.	such scores collectively.

6.	any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves.

7.	appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Musi 3e8 c was in his very soul.

8.	Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds.

—Idiom

9.	face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music.