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Christian

Christian

697 1.4
Relating to the religion and teachings of Jesus Christ
  • adjective
  • /ˈkrɪs.tʃən/
translation icon : cristiano
  • They want America to be a Christian nation.
  • Christian faith
  • Christian tradition
  • Christian theology

They correspond to the Greek Christian term escasus.

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Examples

  • Which means that we want our schools to be Christian, our hospitals to be Christian.

  • These are various components of the Christian story.

  • And so far as it looks like, you know, Christian service on a Sunday morning.

  • I wanna build a Christian college with full student housing.

  • We were interested in discovering the role of Christian education in the implementation of the program.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Even in particular details, this theme resonates with Christian ideas of resurrection and heaven.

    Academic text (2011)
  • She comes from a Christian and God fearing home.

  • And that's very much the project that the Christian right embraces.

  • It was a Christian camp my father founded... for poor, unfortunate, cast-off little boys and girls... who would do anything for a candy bar.

  • Many charities offer help to those in need through Christian organizations.

Compounds

A person who becomes very religious again after a strong personal change in their faith

A person's first name given at birth or baptism

A religious movement that believes in spiritual healing and follows Jesus' teachings

A group of Christians with its own beliefs and ways of worship

A church member who follows Christian Science and often uses prayer for healing

A religion based on Jesus Christ that says he is the savior and teaches love and forgiveness

Christian theology
  • Specialized
3 7.0

The study of Christian beliefs and church teaching by scholars

A Protestant group that uses the Bible as the only guide and baptizes by putting people fully into water

A collection of holy books for Christians including the Old and New Testaments

A time starting at Jesus's birth that people use for AD or CE dates

9.3

A person who calls themselves Christian but accepts only some church teachings

A holiday that Christians celebrate, like Christmas or Easter

A set way churches use for worship with prayers and hymns

Religious rules based on Christian beliefs that some people want as law

A person who follows Christian beliefs and helps people or defends those beliefs

A yearly cycle of seasons and festivals in the Christian church that includes Advent and Easter

A Christian group in the United States formed when the Congregational Church and the Christian Church joined

Monophysite Christian
  • Specialized
9.9

A Christian who believes Jesus has only one divine nature

A rare disease in young children that causes swelling, skull bone cysts, and extreme thirst

A rare disease mainly in young children that causes swelling, holes in the skull, and sometimes extreme thirst and urination

9.9

A Christian from an Eastern church who is part of the Catholic Church but keeps its own services

How Christian

devout
55 5.7
pious
37 6.3
Christian
697 1.4
christless
  • Archaic
9.9
unbelieving
1 6.8

Surface Forms

Christian positive

Morphology

Christian = Christ (transparent) = Christ + ian

Formed regularly from 'Christ' + the adjectival suffix '-ian', meaning 'relating to Christ or Christianity'.

Etymology

Christian comes from the parts Christ and -ian, where Christ means 'the chosen one' and -ian means 'belonging to' or 'about'. So Christian as an adjective means 'about Christ or his religion'.