pagan /0ˈpeɪg(ə)n/ noun & adjective. LME.
[ORIGIN Latin paganus villager, rustic, civilian, non-militant, opp to miles soldier, one of the army, in Christian Latin heathen as opp. to Christian or Jewish, from pagus (rural) district, the country: see -an. Cf. heathen.]

► A noun.
1 A person holding religious beliefs other than those of any of the main religions of the world, spec. a non-Christian; (derog.) a follower of a polytheistic or pantheistic religion. Also transf., a person holding views not consonant with a prevailing system of belief etc. (now rare); a person considered as being of irreligious or unrestrained character or behaviour. LME.

C. S. Lewis Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either has with a post-Christian. Daughters of Sarah I am a practicing Pagan. I follow the old religion of Wicca.

†2 An illicit or clandestine lover; a prostitute. L16–M17.