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adj
Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene.
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Usage: not-comparable
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name
an epithet of Jesus Christ
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Usage: usually
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noun
A person from Nazareth.
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noun
A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes.
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Usage: historical
Synonyms: Nasaree, Nazaree, Nazoree, Nazorean
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noun
A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
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Qualifier: Aramaic and Indian contexts
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noun
A member of the Church of the Nazarene.
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adjective
of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants
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adjective
of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion
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noun
an inhabitant of Nazareth
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Broader terms: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
noun
an early name for any Christian
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Broader terms: Christian
noun
a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
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Synonyms: Ebionite
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Broader terms: religious person
History
In the sense "person from Nazareth", from Ancient Greek Ναζαρηνός (Nazarēnós, “of Nazareth”), an ethnonym of Ναζαρέθ (Nazaréth). In the sense "a member of a certain sect", from Ancient Greek Ναζωραῖος (Nazōraîos), which may or may not be related. For a list of theories as to the further etymology of this word, see the Wikipedia article on ‘Nazarene’.
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