| christian | | |
| n. (person) | 1. christian | a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination. |
| ~ christian church, church | one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship. |
| ~ religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity. |
| ~ adventist, second adventist | a member of Christian denomination that expects the imminent advent of Christ. |
| ~ gentile | a Christian.; "Christians refer to themselves as gentiles" |
| ~ goy, non-jew, gentile | a Christian as contrasted with a Jew. |
| ~ protestant | an adherent of Protestantism. |
| ~ quaker, friend | a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers). |
| ~ catholic | a member of a Catholic 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. |
| ~ copt | a member of the Coptic Church. |
| ~ apostle | (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel. |
| ~ apostelic father, apostle | any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ melchite, melkite | an Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ nazarene | an early name for any Christian. |
| ~ 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'). |
| ~ timothy | a disciple of Saint Paul who became the leader of the Christian community at Ephesus. |
| ~ titus | a Greek disciple and helper of Saint Paul. |
| adj. (pertain) | 2. christian | relating to or characteristic of Christianity.; "Christian rites" |
| ~ faith, religion, religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.; "he lost his faith but not his morality" |
| adj. | 3. christian | following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ. |
| ~ christianly | becoming to or like a Christian.; "gentle christianly behavior" |
| ~ christlike, christly | resembling or showing the spirit of Christ. |
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