INFIDEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infidel mean? 

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

1. a person who does not acknowledge your god

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFIDEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who does not acknowledge your god

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gentile; heathen; infidel; pagan

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

nonreligious person (a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity)

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

paynim (a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim))

idol worshiper; idolater; idoliser; idolizer (a person who worships idols)

 Context examples 

I have heard the minstrels sing of one Sir Roland who was slain by the infidels in these very parts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tremble lest in that case you should be numbered with those who have denied the faith, and are worse than infidels!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He held up two fingers as he passed, with a Benedic, fili mi! whereat Alleyne doffed hat and bent knee, looking with much reverence at one who had devoted his life to the overthrow of the infidel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)