Southern Baptist Convention
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4.9
- proper noun
:
Convención Bautista del Sur
- With 15,200,000 members, the Southern Baptist Convention has become the largest Protestant denomination in the world.
- Southern Baptist Convention meeting
Examples
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The Southern Baptist Convention also augmented the salaries of chaplains.
Academic text (1991) -
There are 34,534 churches cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Blog text (19) -
Louisiana College, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, filed suit against the federal government in February.
Blog text (19) -
President George Bush spoke at the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Atlanta in June 1991.
Academic text (1991) -
Fred Luter, President of the Southern Baptist Convention, says our nation is in trouble.
Blog text (22) -
Interview with Fred Luter: first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Blog text (24) -
In 2011, Luter was elected vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the first African American to hold that position.
Blog text (24) -
Meanwhile, despite some signs of slowing growth after 2001, the Southern Baptist Convention gained more than 7 million members to become the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
Academic text (2006) -
The leading evangelical denomination in the United States is the Southern Baptist Convention, which, with more than 16.3 million members, is the largest Protestant denomination in the country.
Academic text (2006) -
He'll play that part at next week's Southern Baptist Convention in Atlanta.
Synonyms
A group of Baptist churches with its own organization and beliefs about worship and baptism
Surface Forms
Morphology
southern + Baptists + convention
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Southern' specifies the regional scope, 'Baptists' names the religious group, and 'Convention' denotes an organized association or formal gathering, so a learner who knows those words can infer it is the main association/meeting of Baptists in the southern U.S. While 'convention' can also mean a single meeting, both senses are consistent with the phrase and are common cross-linguistically, making the overall sense transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Southern Baptist Convention comes from when many Baptist churches in the southern United States met in a large convention to join together and help each other. So today the name means the main 'group' or association of Baptist churches in the southern US.