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1. (n.) Protestant
any Western Christian not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
2. Protestant
any of the German princes who protested against the decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1529, which had denounced the Reformation.
3. Protestant
(l.c.) a person who protests.
4. (adj.) Protestant
belonging or pertaining to Protestants or their religion.
5. Protestant
(l.c.) protesting.
Etymology: (1530–40; < G or F, for L prōtestantēs, pl. of prp. of prōtestārī to bear public witness. See protest , -ant)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Protestant
an adherent of Protestantism
2. (adj) Protestant Church, Protestant
the Protestant churches and denominations collectively
3. (adj) Protestant
of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism
"Protestant churches"; "a Protestant denomination"
4. (adj) protestant
protesting
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) protestant
making a protest; protesting
2. (adj) protestant
of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers
3. protestant
one who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church
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Sense: (a member) of any of the Christian churches that separated from the Roman Catholic church at or after the Reformation.
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 Afrikaans: protestant |
 Arabic: بروتستانت |
 Bulgarian: Протестант |
 Brazilian: protestante |
 Czech: protestant, -ka |
 German: der/die Protestant(in) |
 Danish: protestant |
 Greek: προτεστάντης |
 Spanish: protestante |
 Estonian: protestant |
 Farsi: پروتستان |
 Finnish: protestantti |
 French: protestant/-ante |
 Hebrew: פּרוֹטסטַנט |
 Hindi: प्रोटेस्टैन्ट |
 Hungarian: protestáns |
 Indonesian: Protestan |
 Icelandic: mótmælandi (sem aðhyllist |
 Italian: protestante |
 Japanese: プロテスタント |
 Korean: 신교도 |
 Lithuanian: protestantas |
 Latvian: protestants |
 Malay: Protestan |
 Dutch: protestant |
 Norwegian: protestant |
 Polish: protestant |
 Persian: پروتستان |
 Pashto: پروتستان |
 Portuguese: protestante |
 Romanian: protestant |
 Russian: протестант |
 Slovak: protestant, -ka |
 Slovenian: protestant |
 Serbian: protestant |
 Swedish: protestant |
 Thai: ผู้นับถือนิกายโปรเตสแตนต์ |
 Turkish: Protestan |
 Taiwanese: (基督教)新教徒的，新教的 |
 Ukrainian: протестант |
 Urdu: عيسائيت کا ايک فرقہ، پروٹ |
 Vietnamese: người theo đạo Tin lành |
 Chinese: 新教（徒）的 |
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