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Christian

adjective · noun US /ˈkrɪstʃən/

relating to or characteristic of Christianity

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,216 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,997 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.

What it means

adjective

  1. relating to or characteristic of Christianity Christian rites
  2. following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ

noun

  1. a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

Christian in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • At the sound of her new name Christian started, and she, too, turned scarlet.

    Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1

  • Frithiof’s Farewell The Children of the Lord’s Supper King Christian The Elected Knight Childhood From the German.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1

  • A pox on 't, as I am a Christian! tell me to-morrow how scurvily she takes my unkind parting.

    The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1

  • Yet the work of Reconstruction, if admitted to be feasible at all, demands little but common sense and Christian charity.

    John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1

  • And oft Pastorius and the meek old man Argued as Quaker and as Lutheran, Ending in Christian love, as they began.

    Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1

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