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CHRISTIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Christian" is a kind of...):
religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Christian"):
Tractarian (a follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called 'Tracts for the Times'))
Shaker (a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world)
Nazarene (an early name for any Christian)
Melchite; Melkite (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)
Melchite; Melkite (an Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem)
communicant (a person entitled to receive Communion)
born-again Christian (a Christian who has experienced a dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus)
arianist (an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God))
Apostelic Father; Apostle (any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people)
Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)
Copt (a member of the Coptic Church)
Old Catholic (a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope)
Catholic (a member of a Catholic church)
Friend; Quaker (a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers))
Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)
gentile; goy; non-Jew (a Christian as contrasted with a Jew)
gentile (a Christian)
Adventist; Second Adventist (a member of Christian denomination that expects the imminent advent of Christ)
Instance hyponyms:
Titus (a Greek disciple and helper of Saint Paul)
Timothy (a disciple of Saint Paul who became the leader of the Christian community at Ephesus)
Holonyms ("Christian" is a member of...):
Christian church; church (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)
Derivation:
Christendom (the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia))
christianly (becoming to or like a Christian)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ
Classified under:
Similar:
christianly (becoming to or like a Christian)
christlike; christly (resembling or showing the spirit of Christ)
Antonym:
unchristian (not of a Christian faith)
Derivation:
Christ (a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29))
Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of Christianity
Example:
Christian rites
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Pertainym:
Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
Derivation:
Christ (a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29))
Christianity (the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia))
Context examples:
Remember that we are English, that we are Christians.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Dear knights and gentlemen, he cried in a high crackling voice, worthy Christian cavaliers, will ye ride past and leave an aged pilgrim to die of hunger?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We brought her round here, called in Dr. Horsom, of 13, Firbank Villas—mind you take the address, Mr. Holmes—and had her carefully tended, as Christian folk should.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Candidates for this degree typically must complete course work in Greek or Hebrew, as well as systematic theology, biblical theology, ethics, homiletics and Christian ministry.
(Bachelor of Theology, NCI Thesaurus)
This is a method (named after the Danish bacteriologist, Hans Christian Gram) for staining and identifying bacteria.
(Gram Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
They are the survivors of the formerly extensive Aramaic- or Syriac- speaking Christian community of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.
(Assyrian, NCI Thesaurus)
Then Arthur spoke out:—Dr. Van Helsing, I don't quite like to 'buy a pig in a poke,' as they say in Scotland, and if it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman or my faith as a Christian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Kirsten Hilger, Christian Fiebach and Ulrike Basten from the Department of Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt combined functional MRI brain scans from over 300 persons with modern graph theoretical network analysis methods to investigate the neurobiological basis of human intelligence.
(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable: and when Mr. Elton himself arrived to triumph in his happy prospects, and circulate the fame of her merits, there was very little more for him to do, than to tell her Christian name, and say whose music she principally played.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her Christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
