CHRISTIAN


Meaning of CHRISTIAN in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ believing , committed , devout , faithful , good , practising/practicing , professing ( AmE )

Boyle was a devout ~ and an enthusiastic student of the Bible.

▪ born-again , evangelical , fundamentalist

He became a born-again ~ at 40 and turned his back on his misspent youth.

▪ Orthodox , Protestant , etc.

▪ conservative , liberal , right-wing

VERB + CHRISTIAN

▪ be brought up (as) , be raised (as)

CHRISTIAN + VERB

▪ believe

▪ pray , worship

II.

adj.

Christian is used with these nouns: ↑ background , ↑ belief , ↑ believer , ↑ burial , ↑ calendar , ↑ charity , ↑ church , ↑ civilization , ↑ college , ↑ community , ↑ conception , ↑ congregation , ↑ conservative , ↑ context , ↑ conversion , ↑ conviction , ↑ doctrine , ↑ dogma , ↑ duty , ↑ education , ↑ era , ↑ ethics , ↑ extremist , ↑ festival , ↑ god , ↑ gospel , ↑ holiday , ↑ leader , ↑ leadership , ↑ love , ↑ marriage , ↑ martyr , ↑ meditation , ↑ message , ↑ minister , ↑ ministry , ↑ minority , ↑ mission , ↑ monk , ↑ moral , ↑ morality , ↑ myth , ↑ name , ↑ nation , ↑ orthodoxy , ↑ philosopher , ↑ philosophy , ↑ prayer , ↑ preacher , ↑ principle , ↑ right , ↑ saint , ↑ school , ↑ scripture , ↑ sect , ↑ symbol , ↑ symbolism , ↑ teaching , ↑ theology , ↑ thinker , ↑ thought , ↑ tradition , ↑ unity , ↑ value , ↑ view , ↑ virtue , ↑ vocation , ↑ worship , ↑ writer

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