English > Christian: 3 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination. |
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| Instances | Timothy | A disciple of Saint Paul who became the leader of the Christian community at Ephesus |
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| Titus | A Greek disciple and helper of Saint Paul |
| Member of | church, Christian church | One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship |
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| Narrower | Adventist, Second Adventist | A member of Christian denomination that expects the imminent advent of Christ |
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| Apostle | (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel |
| Apostle, Apostelic Father | Any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people |
| Catholic | A member of a Catholic church |
| Copt | A member of the Coptic Church |
| Friend, Quaker | A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never / never called themselves Quakers) |
| Melkite, Melchite | An Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem |
| Melkite, Melchite | An eastern Christian in Egypt or Syria who adheres to the Orthodox faith as defined by the council of Chalcedon in 451 and as accepted by the Byzantine emperor |
| Nazarene | An early name for any Christian |
| Old Catholic | A member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope |
| Protestant | An adherent of Protestantism |
| Shaker | A member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world |
| Tractarian | A follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called 'Tracts for the Times') |
| arianist | An adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) |
| born-again Christian | A Christian who has experienced a dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus |
| communicant | A person entitled to receive Communion |
| gentile, non-Jew, goy | A Christian as contrasted with a Jew |
| gentile | A Christian |
| Broader | religious person | A person who manifests devotion to a deity |
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| Spanish | cristiana, cristiano |
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| Catalan | Christian, cristià, cristiana, cristiano |
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| Adjectives | christianly | becoming to or like a Christian |
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| Nouns | Christendom | the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia) |
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