dunkers

1. 1.

   a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion

   SynonymsChurch of the BrethrenDippers

   BroaderBaptist denomination

Other forms of dunkers

plural

dunkerses·

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.

Questions about dunkers

What does dunkers mean?

dunkers means "a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion".

How many syllables are in dunkers?

dunkers has 2 syllables: dun-kers. The stress falls on "dun".

What is another word for dunkers?

Close synonyms include Church of the Brethren, Dippers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dunkers a common word?

dunkers is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.