Southern Baptist
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- noun
- /ˈsʌðərn ˈbæptɪst/
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bautista del Sur
- Louisiana College, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, filed suit against the federal government in February.
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Southern Baptist church
- Southern Baptist Convention meeting
Really, really Southern Baptist, You're against IVF.
- Really, really Southern Baptist, You're against IVF.
- But I do have a problem with the Catholic Church, and I do have a problem with the Southern Baptist, and I do have a problem with the Nazarenes.
Examples
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I was raised in an IFB church, but now I pastor a Southern Baptist church.
Blog text (8) -
"Well, as stated in the article, Southern Baptists believe that all people need a personal, vital relationship with Jesus Christ."
Academic text (1999) -
An American, highly religious Southern Baptist on their first trip ever to the Holy Land.
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My mother was the daughter of a Southern Baptist minister and my father was from a very large Catholic family, and they met each other and they got married.
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And if it takes you 19 years of Sundays to figure this out, you, like me, are a Southern Baptist.
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President George Bush spoke at the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Atlanta in June 1991.
Academic text (1991) -
John Dreyer, a Disney spokesperson, said company officials are willing to work with leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Academic text (1996) -
Like any good Southern Baptist, I've been trained to assess awkward situations with the question, "What would Jesus do?"
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The sentiment found political expression in the election of Democrat Jimmy Carter, a born-again Southern Baptist from Georgia.
Academic text (2001) -
Many members of the Southern Baptist Church attend services regularly and participate in community activities.
Synonyms
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A Christian who fully puts believers under water to show their faith
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally built from 'southern' (pertaining to the U.S. South) + 'Baptists' (members of the Baptist church), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to Baptists from the southern region or a Southern branch of Baptists. Although it can denote a specific institutional name (the Southern Baptist Convention), that institutional nuance does not prevent the overall meaning being transparently derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Southern Baptist comes from Baptist, the Christian group that baptizes people, and Southern, because in the 1800s many Baptists in the southern United States formed their own group. So today a Southern Baptist means 'a member of that group'.