Definitions for pious
ˈpaɪ əspi·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. piousadjective

   having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity

   "pious readings"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. piousadjective

   Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.

2. Etymology: From pius

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PIOUSadjective

   Etymology: pius, Lat. pieux, Fr.

   1. Careful of the duties owed by created beings to God; godly; religious; such as is due to sacred things.

   Pious awe that fear’d to have offended. John Milton.

   2. Careful of the duties of near relation.

   As he is not called a just father, that educates his children well, but pious; so that prince, who defends and well rules his people, is religious. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Living Holy.

   Where was the martial brother’s pious care?
   Condemn’d perhaps some foreign shore to tread. Alexander Pope.

   3. Practised under the appearance of religion.

   I shall never gratify spightfulness with any sinister thoughts of all whom pious frauds have seduced. Charles I .

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Piousadjective

   of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly

2. Piousadjective

   practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pious

   pī′us, adj. showing love, affection, or respect towards parents: having reverence and love for the Deity: proceeding from religious feeling.—adv. Pī′ously, in a pious manner.—adj. Pī′ous-mind′ed, of a pious disposition. [Fr. pieux—L. pius.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PIOUS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pious is ranked #152628 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pious surname appeared 107 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pious.
   
   48.6% or 52 total occurrences were Black.
   24.3% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.
   23.3% or 25 total occurrences were White.

How to pronounce pious?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pious in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pious in a Sentence

1. Alexander Knyazev:

   Its closure and official pressure on its members is likely to push many pious Muslims out of officially registered mosques into underground ones.

2. Sheikh Mutlaq:

   More than 90 percent of pious Muslim women in the Muslim world do not wear abayas. So we should not force people to wear abayas.

3. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   These people have nothing to do with Islam, i believe my pious Kurdish brothers will give them the necessary answer on June 7.

4. Aaron Peña:

   Most of our people are Catholic, and they are pious Catholics, they follow their traditions, and one of those traditions is respecting life, and Democratic Party no longer tolerates a pro-life Democrat.

5. Menachem Landow:

   The trouble-makers here are generally from a certain sector of Israeli society, dislocated young men from pious backgrounds, who simply hate Arabs as part of a race theory and are looking for a framework in which to act on that hatred, they have to be tackled individually.

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