Home › Words › S › subreligionsubreligionsubreligion means A secondary or subordinate religion.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, subreligion ranks #16,730 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sub- + religion.nounA secondary or subordinate religion.e.g.“Loyalty is in the English a sub-religion.” — 1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “(please specify the chapter or essay name)”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).