Believer

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
  • n. One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.
  • n. One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who believes; one who gives credit to other evidence than that of personal knowledge; one who is firmly persuaded in his own mind of the truth or existence of something: as, a believer in ghosts.
  • n. An adherent of a religious faith; in a more restricted sense, a Christian; one who exercises faith in Christ.
  • n. In the early church, a baptized layman, in contradistinction to the clergy on the one hand, and to the catechumens, who were preparing for baptism, on the other.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who has religious faith
  • n. a supporter who accepts something as true
  • Antonym
    unbeliever    heretic    infidel   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Christian    truster    accepter    receiver    faithful    the faithful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beaver    Cheever    Seaver    achiever    beaver    cleaver    dever    fever    griever    keever   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disciple    belief    admirer    thinker    patriot    worshipper    adherent    supporter    convert    reformer