BAPTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baptist mean? 

• BAPTIST (noun)
  The noun BAPTIST has 1 sense:

1. follower of Baptistic doctrines

  Familiarity information: BAPTIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAPTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Follower of Baptistic doctrines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Baptist" is a kind of...):

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Baptist"):

Dunkard; Dunker; Tunker (an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion))

Northern Baptist (a member of the American Baptist Convention)

Southern Baptist (a member of the Southern Baptist Convention)

Holonyms ("Baptist" is a member of...):

Baptist Church; Baptists (any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers)

Derivation:

baptism (a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth)

Baptistic (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baptist church)

 Context examples 

There was our good vicar, Mr. Jefferson, who loved the whole world save only Mr. Slack, the Baptist minister of Clayton; and there was kindly Mr. Slack, who was all men’s brother save only of Mr. Jefferson, the vicar of Friar’s Oak.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)