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Nazarene

adj, name, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene. not-comparable

    "Holiness Today is a Nazarene magazine."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    an epithet of Jesus Christ usually

    "I stand amazed in the presence / Of Jesus, the Nazarene, / And wonder how He could love me, / A sinner, condemend, unclean."

Noun
  1. 1
    A person from Nazareth.

    "While Jenin was starving under curfew, Nazarenes were only twenty minutes away, watching televised footage of their neighbours ‘in solidarity’."

  2. 2
    an inhabitant of Nazareth wordnet
  3. 3
    A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes. historical

    "He was formerly with the sect of the Pharisees, but now he is a Nazarene."

  4. 4
    an early name for any Christian wordnet
  5. 5
    A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
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  1. 6
    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 wordnet
  2. 7
    A member of the Church of the Nazarene.

    "I have been a Nazarene for several years; I joined the church in 1946."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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’.

Etymology 2

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’.

Etymology 3

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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