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DIPPERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dippers mean?
• DIPPERS (noun)
The noun DIPPERS has 1 sense:
1. a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion
Familiarity information: DIPPERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Church of the Brethren; Dippers; Dunkers
Hypernyms ("Dippers" is a kind of...):
Baptist denomination (group of Baptist congregations)
Meronyms (members of "Dippers"):
Dunkard; Dunker; Tunker (an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion))
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