say it: PRAH-tuh-stuhn-tiz-uhm
protestantism is a noun meaning "the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation". It is pronounced /ˈpɹɑtəstənˌtɪzəm/ — PRAH-tuh-stuhn-tiz-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
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 protestantism 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.