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Baptist
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baptist
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈbæptɪst/
en /ˈbæbtɪst/ /ˈbæbdɪs(t)/ /ˈbæbdəs/ US,dialectal
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Paul2520-Baptist.wav Midwestern US
Noun
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An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.
Usage notes
There is no single common term, either a single word or a phrase, for the Baptist denominations of Christianity. Often people speak of the Baptist faith. Terms such as en Baptistdom and en Baptistism are occasionally used and readily understood, but none have become accepted as standard.
Hypernyms
en Christian
en Protestant
Hyponyms
en Separate Baptist Afro-Baptist Bapticostal Talibaptist Scotch Baptist Seventh Day Baptist Primitive Baptist
Derived terms
en General Baptist Baptist cakes Baptist Mills Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptist
Related terms
en Anabaptism Anabaptist Anabaptistic Anabaptistically baptise baptiser baptism baptist baptize baptizer credobaptist paedobaptist rebaptise rebaptiser rebaptize rebaptizer
Translations
adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity
Belarusian: be бапты́ст m, be бапты́стка f
Bulgarian: bg бапти́ст m, bg бапти́стка f
Catalan: ca baptista m f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 浸信會教友, cmn 浸禮宗教友
Czech: cs baptista m, cs baptistka f
Danish: da baptist c
Dutch: nl baptist m
Estonian: et baptist
Finnish: fi baptisti
French: fr baptiste m f
Galician: gl baptista m f
Georgian: ka ბაპტისტი
German: de Baptist m, de Baptistin f
Greek: el βαπτιστής m, el βαπτίστρια f
Hungarian: hu baptista
Icelandic: is baptisti m
Ingrian: izh baptisti
Italian: it battista m f
Japanese: ja バプテスト baputesuto
Kazakh: kk баптист
Latvian: lv baptists m, lv baptiste f
Lithuanian: lt baptìstas m, lt baptìstė f
Macedonian: mk баптист m, mk баптистка f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb baptist m
Nynorsk: nn baptist m
Polish: pl baptysta m, pl baptystka f
Portuguese: pt batista m f
Romanian: ro baptist m, ro baptistă f
Russian: ru бапти́ст m, ru бапти́стка f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ба̀птист m
Latin: sh bàptist m
Slovak: sk baptista m, sk baptistka f
Slovene: sl baptíst m, sl baptístka f
Spanish: es baptista m f
Swedish: sv baptist c
Ukrainian: uk бапти́ст m, uk бапти́стка f
Adjective
Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.
en 1980 AA Book of British Villages Drive Publications Ltd 214, about Halton Holegate One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
Translations
of the Baptist religious denomination
Catalan: ca baptista m f
Dutch: nl baptistisch
Esperanto: eo baptisma
Finnish: fi baptisti
French: fr baptiste
German: de baptistisch, de Baptisten- in compound words
Hungarian: hu baptista
Korean: ko 침례교
Polish: pl baptystyczny
Portuguese: pt batista
Romanian: ro baptist
Russian: ru бапти́стский
Spanish: es baptista
Swedish: sv baptistisk
Yiddish: yi באַפּטיסטיש
See also
en Amish (en Amishman, en Amishwoman)
en Amish Mennonite
en Hutterite
en Mennonite
Anagrams
en abipstt batspit
en terms suffixed with -ist
en Protestantism
German
Pronunciation
de /bapˈtɪst/
de De-Baptist.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Etymology 1
de la baptista, from de grc βαπτιστής.
Alternative forms
de Baptista
Proper noun
m,-:ä
de Christianity archaic the Baptist title of Saint John the Baptist
de (Johannes der) Täufer
de Johann Baptist John the Baptist
Etymology 2
From de en Baptist, eventually derived from the same Latin and Greek etyma as in etymology 1.
Noun
m.weak in
de Christianity Baptist male or of unspecified gender (member of a Baptist church or denomination)
Declension
m.weak
Related terms
de arminianischer Baptist Baptismus Baptist des freien Willens Baptist des siebenten Tages Baptist des siebenten Tags Baptistengemeinde Baptistengruppierung Baptistenkirche Baptistentum baptistisch Bibel-Baptist calvinistischer Baptist freier Baptist Frei-Willlens-Baptist freiwilliger Baptist General-Baptist Generalbaptist kalvinistischer Baptist Particular-Baptist Particularbaptist Partikular-Baptist Partikularbaptist primitiver Baptist reformierter Baptist regulärer Baptist Siebenten-Tages-Baptist Siebenten-Tags-Baptist
de Protestantism