PRESBYTERIAN

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

1. a follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church

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

• PRESBYTERIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

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

Presbyterian Church (the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of John Calvin)

 Context examples 

And then, France had increased by leaps and bounds, reaching out to the north into Belgium and Holland, and to the south into Italy, whilst we were weakened by deep-lying disaffection among both Catholics and Presbyterians in Ireland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"A big problem associated with type 2 diabetes is that beta cells stop functioning properly and fade away," said senior author Dr. James C. Lo, assistant professor of medicine and of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"This is a nice restaurant here," said Mr. Wolfshiem looking at the Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling. "But I like across the street better!"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)