hard corenoun
uk/ˈhɑːd ˌkɔːr/us/ˈhɑːrd ˌkɔːr/hard core noun (BELIEF)
[ S, + sing/pl verb ] also hard-core a small group of people within a larger group, who strongly believe in the group's principles and usually have a lot of power in it:
The hard core of the party has not lost sight of the original ideals.
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Religious people: believers & non-believers
- agnostic
- apophatic
- apostasy
- apostate
- atheist
- believer
- faithless
- freethinker
- God-fearing
- godless
- hard core
- heathen
- humanism
- parishioner
- pilgrim
- revisionism
- skeptic
- the laity
- theist
- unbeliever
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hard core noun (STONE/BRICK)
[ U ] mainly UK the pieces of broken stone, brick, etc. used to make the base under a floor, path, or road
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Building materials
- adobe
- airbrick
- asbestos
- asphalt
- bitumen
- boarding
- flagstone
- flitch
- floorboard
- flooring
- hardboard
- lacquer
- limestone
- razor wire
- reinforced concrete
- roofing
- rubble
- screed
- shingle
- siding
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