Baptist

See also: baptist

English

Baptist (countable and uncountable, plural Baptists)

An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.

There is no single common term, either a single word or a phrase, for the Baptist denominations of Christianity. Often people speak of the Baptist faith. Terms such as Baptistdom and Baptistism are occasionally used and readily understood, but none have become accepted as standard.

adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity

Belarusian: бапты́ст m (baptýst), бапты́стка f (baptýstka)
Bulgarian: бапти́ст m (baptíst), бапти́стка f (baptístka)
Catalan: baptista m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 浸信會教友 / 浸信会教友 (Jìnxìnhuì jiàoyǒu), 浸禮宗教友 / 浸礼宗教友 (Jìnlǐzōng jiàoyǒu)
Czech: baptista (cs) m, baptistka f
Danish: baptist c
Dutch: baptist (nl) m
Estonian: baptist
Finnish: baptisti (fi)
French: baptiste (fr) m or f
Galician: baptista m or f
Georgian: ბაპტისტი (baṗṭisṭi)
German: Baptist (de) m, Baptistin (de) f
Greek: βαπτιστής (el) m (vaptistís), βαπτίστρια f (vaptístria)
Hungarian: baptista (hu)
Icelandic: baptisti m
Ingrian: baptisti
Italian: battista (it) m or f
Japanese: バプテスト (baputesuto)
Kazakh: баптист (baptıyst)
Latvian: baptists m, baptiste f
Lithuanian: bapti̇̀stas m, bapti̇̀stė f
Macedonian: баптист m (baptist), баптистка f (baptistka)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: baptist m

Nynorsk: baptist m
Polish: baptysta (pl) m, baptystka f
Portuguese: batista (pt) m or f
Romanian: baptist (ro) m, baptistă (ro) f
Russian: бапти́ст (ru) m (baptíst), бапти́стка (ru) f (baptístka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ба̀птист m

Latin: bàptist (sh) m
Slovak: baptista m, baptistka f
Slovene: baptíst m, baptístka f
Spanish: baptista m or f
Swedish: baptist (sv) c
Ukrainian: бапти́ст (uk) m (baptýst), бапти́стка (uk) f (baptýstka)

Baptist (comparative more Baptist, superlative most Baptist)

Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate:
  One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.

of the Baptist religious denomination

Baptist m (proper noun, strong, genitive Baptist or Baptistä)

(Christianity, archaic) the Baptist (title of Saint John the Baptist)
Synonym: (Johannes der) Täufer

Johann Baptist ― John the Baptist

From English Baptist, eventually derived from the same Latin and Greek etyma as in etymology 1.

Baptist m (weak, genitive Baptisten, plural Baptisten, feminine Baptistin)

(Christianity) Baptist (male or of unspecified gender) (member of a Baptist church or denomination)