mormon

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Mormon Church

   “Mormon leaders”

   “the former Mormon practice of polygamy”

   religion

Other forms of mormon

plural

mormons·

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 mormon

What does mormon mean?

mormon means "the ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mormon?

mormon has 2 syllables: mor-mon. The stress falls on "mor". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹmən/.

What is another word for mormon?

Close synonyms include Latter-Day Saint. 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 mormon a common word?

mormon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.