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say it: KRIS-chuhn
christian is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or characteristic of Christianity". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɪstʃən/ — KRIS-chuhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
relating to or characteristic of Christianity
“Christian rites”
religion
following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ
a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for christian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.