Baptist

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Usage notes
There is no single common term, either a single word or a phrase, for the Baptist denominations of Christianity. Terms such as and  see occasional use but are not accepted as standard.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 浸禮會教友
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βᾰπτῐστής
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: baptisti
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: баптист
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: baptist
 * Polish: baptysta, baptystka
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.

Translations

 * Catalan: baptista
 * Dutch: baptistisch
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: baptistisch, Baptisten-
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean: 침례교
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: baptistisk
 * Yiddish: באַפּטיסטיש

Etymology 1
, from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Baptist title of Saint John the Baptist

Etymology 2
From, eventually derived from the same Latin and Greek etyma as in etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1)  Baptist  (member of a Baptist church or denomination)