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Mormon

Mormon

4.2
A person who belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • noun
  • /ˈmɔrmən/
translation icon : mormón
  • Growing up as a Mormon, I was taught the importance of family and community service.

Thanks, McKay, but he's Mormon, in case anybody doesn't know.

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Examples

  • I think my parents both grew up in Utah where their surroundings were very Mormon heavy and they had been pushed into the Mormon church.

  • So I went back to Utah and tried to be a good Mormon at the time.

  • I was raised in the Mormon church, I married a woman, and I am gay.

  • My mom was raised Mormon and is no longer Mormon.

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  • So freaking funny and being a human who grew up Mormon made it all the more funny.

  • And I have a couple really, really good friends that, you know, went through the Mormon missionary program too.

  • I am a Mormon and Dang it, a Mormon just believes Andrew Reynolds is brilliant.

  • I bought my first Armani suit as a Mormon missionary on a bike.

  • I was a high priest in the Mormon Church, served in a state presidency and in a, in a, a bishopric as, as a second counselor.

  • As a teenager, I participated in many activities organized by the local Mormon church in my community.

Synonyms

Latter-Day Saint
vsMormon
19 5.2

A person who belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often called the Mormon Church

is the informal common name used instead of the formal title
Mormonite
vsMormon
  • Archaic
9.8

A person who follows the Mormon church, often an early member

is the modern standard term not the older historical follower label

Compounds

11 3.5

A Christian church founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith and based in Salt Lake City, Utah

The holy book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that tells the history of ancient American peoples

A family whose members belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

A large Salt Lake City hall used for Mormon church services and choir concerts

Book of Mormon
  • Neologism
1 5.2

A satirical Broadway musical created by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez

A large dark insect like a cricket that cannot fly and forms moving swarms in the western United States

Mormon State
  • Archaic
7.1

An old name for the US state of Utah because many Mormons settled there in 1847

Surface Forms

Mormon singular
Mormons plural

Etymology

The word Mormon comes from the name Mormon, an ancient prophet in the church's holy book, the Book of Mormon. Because the church's teachings come from that book, its members became known as 'Mormons'.