nazarene

1. 1.

   a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome

   SynonymsEbionite

   Broaderreligious person
2. 2.

   an early name for any Christian

   BroaderChristian
3. 3.

   an inhabitant of Nazareth

   Broaderinhabitant

1. 1.

   of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion
2. 2.

   of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants

Other forms of nazarene

plural

nazarenes·

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 nazarene

What does nazarene mean?

nazarene means "a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nazarene?

nazarene has 3 syllables: na-za-rene. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for nazarene?

Close synonyms include Ebionite. 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 nazarene a common word?

nazarene is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.