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# baptist

«baptist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a member of a Protestant Christian church that baptises…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a Baptist, Baptists; John the Baptist); adjective (Baptist)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) A Baptist is a member of a Protestant Christian church that baptises only people old enough to say they believe, usually by putting them fully under water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#m1)

2) (Bible) John the Baptist was the prophet who baptised people in the river Jordan, including Jesus, and told them to get ready for God's kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#m2)

3) Baptist (adjective) describes these churches, as in "a Baptist chapel". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Baptist churches are common in the USA (especially in the South), in Wales and in Australia; each church usually runs its own affairs. In nativity and Easter lessons, John the Baptist appears wearing camel hair and eating locusts and wild honey. Phrases: the Baptist church, Southern Baptist, John the Baptist.

### examples

- Our neighbours go to the Baptist church on the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x1)
- John the Baptist lived in the desert and ate locusts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x2)
- Baptists are baptised when they decide to follow Jesus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x3)
- Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x4)
- The Baptist chapel has a pool under the floor for baptisms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x5)
- John the Baptist said, "Someone greater than me is coming." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x6)
- It was not nearly so big as its mother; only about the size of a Baptist chapel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/#x7)

### note

Capital B for the church and its members. Plural Baptists. Different from "baptism" (the ceremony) and "baptise" (the verb). John the Baptist is not the same John as the disciple John.

### In the corpora

- [Baptists and many Pentecostal churches baptise people old enough to decide, usually by full immersion, which means going right under the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/12/)
- [Protestant churches stress the Bible, faith and grace, and include Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/13/)
- [Baptist churches baptise believers by full immersion and let each congregation govern itself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baptist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baptist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.