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christian

/kris-chuhn/US // ˈkrɪs tʃən //UK // (ˈkrɪstʃən) //

基督徒,基督教徒,基督徒的,基督徒的朋友

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or derived from Jesus Christ or His teachings: a Christian faith.
    • : of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ: Spain is a Christian country.
    • : of or relating to Christians: many Christian deaths in the Crusades.
    • : exhibiting a spirit proper to a follower of Jesus Christ; Christlike: She displayed true Christian charity.
    • : decent; respectable: They gave him a good Christian burial.
    • : human; not brutal; humane: Such behavior isn't Christian.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who believes in Jesus Christ; adherent of Christianity.
    • : a person who exemplifies in his or her life the teachings of Christ: He died like a true Christian.
    • : a member of any of certain Protestant churches, as the Disciples of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren.
    • : the hero of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
    • : a male given name.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Examples

  • Chick-fil-A courted conservatives with its “Christian” values, while Skyy Vodka signals its liberalness by sponsoring New York’s Pride parade.

  • Anybody who is a Christian or a Hindu or a Parsi or a Jain, but Muslims cannot.

  • “As an evangelical Christian, I’ve already got some things that I believe that the mainstream would consider conspiracy,” he says.

  • So Mousa invited Christian soccer teams in two cities in the region, Ankawa and Qaraqosh, to participate in her experiment, eventually recruiting 51 teams to create four leagues.

  • However, both ancient Jewish and ancient Christian sources viewed these goods as “fair wages,” in the words of the scholar James Kugel – just repayments for the Israelites’ years of slave labor.

  • But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.

  • In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.

  • The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

  • Congress is now 92 percent Christian, resembling more to a papal enclave than our religiously diverse nation.

  • Within a few swipes, I was already feeling that burst of romantic optimism you need the first day of the (Christian) new year.

  • I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.

  • Hence it can be seen what hope there is of establishing a flourishing christian church by such evangelists.

  • His superior talents and untiring industry were under the direction of philanthropic and Christian impulses.

  • "Marco's" reply conclusively proved his possession of a Christian spirit.

  • All religions, the Christian religion included, are adaptations or variants of older religions.