Smith, Joseph BrE AmE
(1805–44) a US religious leader who started the ↑ Mormon religion. He described how an ↑ angel showed him where two golden ↑ tablet s (=flat pieces of metal with words cut into them) were buried in a hill in the state of New York. He translated the writing on the tablets and it became the Book of Mormon , the holy book of the Mormon religion ⇨ ↑ Mormon